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The mini-Internet website

The mini-Internet automatically creates a webserver that runs in a dedicated container called WEB and in which several monitoring tools are available.

To access the WEB container from outside, we use a PROXY container.

Once the mini-Internet has started, you can access the webserver with the following URL: https://your-server-domain. We now explain how to configure the mini-Internet webserver.

Configure the website

The configuration must be done in the setup/website_setup.sh script. You must fill in the hostname and give an email to enable HTTPS. This information is then used to automatically obtain a certificate using LetsEncrypt (done by the PROXY container). In case HTTP is enough your you, just keep these variables empty.

You can also configure the ports used by the webserver setup or just use the default ones. By default, port 80 is used for HTTP, 443 is used for HTTPS and 3000 is used to access the krill webserver. Note that the krill tab of the mini-Internet website is just a redirection to the krill webserver on port 3000.

Finally, you can configure your timezone.

Webserver log

You can see the log of the webserver simply with the following command:

docker logs WEB

Port filtering to prevent DDoS

Since the webserver is running in the server hosting the mini-Internet, we must avoid potential DDoS attacks on the server. We provide the script utils/iptables/filters.sh that applies basic port filtering rules to mitigate some of these potential threats.