Kandan - an open Source alternative to HipChat

Re:Kandan - an open Source alternative to HipChat by Shank on Friday February 08, 2013 @02:45AM (#5186768)

Does it support HTTPS out of the box? I notice the demo isn't running on it, which is a deal breaker for an internal communication network.

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Re:Kandan - an open Source alternative to HipChat by scott_w on Friday February 08, 2013 @04:04AM (#5186980)

You may be able to proxy it behind nginx, which does support HTTPS.

Some applications do struggle when running behind a proxy (I'm looking at you Jira) but my experience tells me that it's harder to break SSL support than not.

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Re:Kandan - an open Source alternative to HipChat by jbye on Friday February 08, 2013 @05:26AM (#5187153)

We're running JIRA behind nginx with https. To get it to work properly we had to edit JIRA's server.xml, duplicate the connector but append (e.g.) proxyPort="8443" and scheme="https". In addition, in JIRA's general settings you should make sure that the base URL is set to use https to avoid the SSL warnings.

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Re:Kandan - an open Source alternative to HipChat by jeffcutsinger on Friday February 08, 2013 @09:06AM (#5187870)

I'd prefer for it to not. It's better to use nginx or stud to provide HTTPS on top of an HTTP app.

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Re:Kandan - an open Source alternative to HipChat by fusion94 on Friday February 08, 2013 @04:49AM (#5187076)

the demo isn't running https. the demo is the 1.0 release, 1.1 will support https.

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