Testing aside, I would not bind a production riak to an external interface. The recommended method is to access riak via an intermediary like nginx.
-alexander On 2010-12-01, Andrew Stone <andrew.j.ston...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > You need to configure Riak to listen on the right interface. You are trying > to hit it from 127.0.0.1 which is only available from the local machine. > > If you set web_ip to 0.0.0.0 in app.config for riak_core it will listen on > all interfaces. Then you can try to hit it with a curl remotely using > myhost.com from your browser. > > -Andrew > > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Stefan Scott Alexander < > stefanscottal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi - >> >> SUMMARY: >> This may be a silly question but... after installing Riak via ssh, can I >> (or should I) test *remotely* it from a browser? >> >> I'm very excited about being able to learn how to use MapReduce with Riak. >> >> I installed Riak on my remote VPS server (running Debian 5.0 Lenny) - via >> Putty & SSH on my Windows laptop. >> >> So... if I PUT some data into Riak using curl, it seems to show up. >> >> But I can't see it in my browser if I go to my server, eg: >> >> http://myhost.com/riak/images/img001.jpg >> >> returns "Error 101" - webpage not available. >> >> Of course, since my 3 nodes are all at 127.0.0.1, then maybe I *shouldn't* >> be able to access them remotely from a browser. >> >> (By the way, I did open up my firewall on ports 8091, 8092, and 8093 - >> incoming and outgoing). >> >> Anyways... I was just wondering if anyone had any pointers. >> >> +++++ >> >> DETAILS: >> >> (0) I followed the steps here: >> >> https://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Building+a+Development+Environment >> >> and everything worked fine. >> >> >> (1) I ran a test: >> >> curl -H "Accept: text/plain" http://127.0.0.1:8091/stats >> >> and got the output: >> >> curl -H "Accept: text/plain" http://127.0.0.1:8091/stats >> { >> "vnode_gets": 0, >> "vnode_puts": 0, >> "read_repairs": 0, >> "vnode_gets_total": 2, >> "vnode_puts_total": 1, >> "node_gets": 0, >> "node_gets_total": 2, >> "node_get_fsm_time_mean": "undefined", >> "node_get_fsm_time_median": "undefined", >> "node_get_fsm_time_95": "undefined", >> "node_get_fsm_time_99": "undefined", >> "node_get_fsm_time_100": "undefined", >> "node_puts": 0, >> "node_puts_total": 1, >> "node_put_fsm_time_mean": "undefined", >> "node_put_fsm_time_median": "undefined", >> "node_put_fsm_time_95": "undefined", >> "node_put_fsm_time_99": "undefined", >> "node_put_fsm_time_100": "undefined", >> "read_repairs_total": 0, >> "cpu_nprocs": 291, >> "cpu_avg1": 0, >> "cpu_avg5": 0, >> "cpu_avg15": 0, >> "mem_total": 537100288, >> "mem_allocated": 520372224, >> "nodename": "d...@127.0.0.1", >> "connected_nodes": [ >> "d...@127.0.0.1", >> "d...@127.0.0.1" >> ], >> "sys_driver_version": "1.5", >> "sys_global_heaps_size": 0, >> "sys_heap_type": "private", >> "sys_logical_processors": 2, >> "sys_otp_release": "R14B", >> "sys_process_count": 155, >> "sys_smp_support": true, >> "sys_system_version": "Erlang R14B (erts-5.8.1) [source] [smp:2:2] >> [rq:2] [async-threads:64] [kernel-poll:true]", >> "sys_system_architecture": "i686-pc-linux-gnu", >> "sys_threads_enabled": true, >> "sys_thread_pool_size": 64, >> "sys_wordsize": 4, >> "ring_members": [ >> "d...@127.0.0.1", >> "d...@127.0.0.1", >> "d...@127.0.0.1" >> ], >> "ring_num_partitions": 64, >> "ring_ownership": "[{'d...@127.0.0.1',21},{'d...@127.0.0.1',21},{' >> d...@127.0.0.1',22}]", >> "ring_creation_size": 64, >> "storage_backend": "riak_kv_bitcask_backend", >> "pbc_connects_total": 0, >> "pbc_connects": 0, >> "pbc_active": 0, >> "riak_err_version": "0.1.0", >> "runtime_tools_version": "1.8.4.1", >> "luwak_version": "1.0", >> "skerl_version": "0.1", >> "riak_kv_version": "0.13.0", >> "riak_core_version": "0.13.0", >> "luke_version": "0.2.2", >> "erlang_js_version": "0.4.1", >> "bitcask_version": "1.1.4", >> "mochiweb_version": "1.7.1", >> "webmachine_version": "1.7.3", >> "crypto_version": "2.0.1", >> "os_mon_version": "2.2.5", >> "sasl_version": "2.1.9.2", >> "stdlib_version": "1.17.1", >> "kernel_version": "2.14.1" >> >> So that looked good. >> >> >> (2) To do a test involving an image, I copied an image (myimg.jpg) into my >> current directory, and then PUT the image into Riak (at >> riak/images/img001.jpg) using curl: >> >> curl -X PUT HTTP://127.0.0.1:8091/riak/images/img001.jpg -H "Content-type: >> image/jpeg" --data-binary @myimg.jpg >> >> Now the image seems to be stored properly in Riak, because it seems that I >> can GET it with curl: >> >> curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8091/riak/images/img001.jpg >> >> (This sends a bunch of garbled text to my Putty/SSH window. I assume this >> means "success" because it's just the binary data of the jpg file.) >> >> >> (3) I also PUT some text, and it seems to work: >> >> curl -v -d 'this is a test' -H "Content-Type: text/plain" >> http://127.0.0.1:8091/riak/test >> >> * About to connect() to 127.0.0.1 port 8091 (#0) >> * Trying 127.0.0.1... connected >> * Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 8091 (#0) >> > POST /riak/test HTTP/1.1 >> > User-Agent: curl/7.18.2 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.18.2 >> > OpenSSL/0.9.8g >> zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.8 libssh2/0.18 >> > Host: 127.0.0.1:8091 >> > Accept: */* >> > Content-Type: text/plain >> > Content-Length: 14 >> > >> < HTTP/1.1 201 Created >> < Vary: Accept-Encoding >> < Server: MochiWeb/1.1 WebMachine/1.7.3 (participate in the frantic) >> < Location: /riak/test/QTPs0B1zeu9I1WXtJnaAJpQyOee >> < Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:12:27 GMT >> < Content-Type: application/json >> < Content-Length: 0 >> < >> * Connection #0 to host 127.0.0.1 left intact >> * Closing connection #0 >> >> Then I GET the test (using the location key generated above): >> >> curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8091/riak/test/QTPs0B1zeu9I1WXtJnaAJpQyOee >> >> * About to connect() to 127.0.0.1 port 8091 (#0) >> * Trying 127.0.0.1... connected >> * Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 8091 (#0) >> > GET /riak/test/QTPs0B1zeu9I1WXtJnaAJpQyOee HTTP/1.1 >> > User-Agent: curl/7.18.2 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.18.2 >> > OpenSSL/0.9.8g >> zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.8 libssh2/0.18 >> > Host: 127.0.0.1:8091 >> > Accept: */* >> > >> < HTTP/1.1 200 OK >> < X-Riak-Vclock: a85hYGBgzGDKBVIsbGvXVWcwJTLmsTJ012Qf48sCAA== >> < Vary: Accept-Encoding >> < Server: MochiWeb/1.1 WebMachine/1.7.3 (participate in the frantic) >> < Link: </riak/test>; rel="up" >> < Last-Modified: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:12:27 GMT >> < ETag: 35XAETNjfRGZJESsKwuMvB >> < Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:12:47 GMT >> < Content-Type: text/plain >> < Content-Length: 14 >> < >> * Connection #0 to host 127.0.0.1 left intact >> * Closing connection #0 >> this is a test >> >> >> OK, so that's the silly question I have: If I'm connecting to this server >> remotely, is there any point in trying to see that data from a browser? >> >> If I do the following: >> >> http://myhost.com:8091/riak/images/img001.jpg >> http://myhost.com:8091/riak/test/QTPs0B1zeu9I1WXtJnaAJpQyOee >> >> the browser just says "web page unavailable". >> >> +++++ >> >> Anyways, everything probably *is* working fine - and I probably just >> shouldn't be trying to test it from a remote browser - because normally I >> wouldn't access "raw" Riak data directly from a browser, right? Eventually >> I'll have some sort of web application framework set up (eg, Nitrogen), >> and >> in the source of a web page I'll be using a Riak URL as a datasource - >> say, >> to send out some JSON to populate a control on the web page, right? >> >> Sorry about this newbie question! Thanks for any pointers. >> >> - Scott >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> riak-users mailing list >> riak-users@lists.basho.com >> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >> >> > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
