filesender-phpfpm:2.0-beta3

Info

Docker image of filesender running within php-fpm, with nginx providing the webserver in front. All of the docker images are based off of debian stable.

This release of filesender can use simplesamlphp or shibboleth-sp for authentication. Questions directly related on using or configuring filesender should get posted to it's mailinglist.

Dependencies

This docker image of filesender requires the following environment dependencies:

Host system dependencies

1. docker-compose is installed on the system.
2. The host system's time synchronized with a master ntp server.
3. No other service on the system is listening at port 80 or 443. This can be changed through modifying the docker-compose configuration and files.
4. A public IP address if using shibboleth authentication. For production deployments, having nginx using an ssl cert associated with a public DNS entry is the ideal situation.
5. For production deployments, planned disk capacity to store uploaded files.

External dependencies

1. An smtp server to send emails. For the examples located in the compose/ directory, they use a gmail test account. For a production deployment an organization's smtp server should be used.

Environment Variables

The following environment variables control the docker setup:

• FILESENDER_URL - full URL to enter in the browser to bring up filesender
• FILESENDER_AUTHTYPE - used by the 2.x series with the possible values:
  • shibboleth - use shibboleth for authentication
  • saml - use simplesamlphp for authentication
  • fake - use a fake user to authenticate.
• FILESENDER_AUTHSAML - when using simplesaml for authentication, which is the only option with the 1.x series, the authentication type to use as defined in simplesamlphps's config/authsources.php file.
• MAIL_ATTR, NAME_ATTR, UID_ATTR - depending on the value of FILESENDER_AUTHTYPE:
  • shibboleth - the fastcgi environment variable containing the attribute value.
  • simplesamlphp - the saml attribute name to use.
  • fake - the actual value to use
• DB_HOST - the database hostname to connect to.
• DB_NAME - the database namespace to install filesender tables into
• DB_USER - the database user to connecto the database system with
• DB_PASSWORD - the database user password
• SMTP_SERVER - the SMTP server to send email through. It must be a valid server for filesender to work.
• SMTP_TLS - The SMTP server requires TLS encrypted communication
• SMTP_USER - the optional user account needed to connect to the SMTP server
• SMTP_PSWD - the optional SMTP user account password
• CHOWN_WWW - An optional uid:gid value for filesender to run as. It is most relevent when docker mounting the container's /data directory to store uploads on the host filesystem. Filesender should be running as the user owning the host system directory, otherwise upload permission errors will occur.
• ADMIN_EMAIL - email address of the filesender admin account, must be valid
• ADMIN_USERS - the set of user accounts that should be considered administrators
• ADMIN_PSWD - the password to use for the admin account
• SIMPLESAML_MODULES - the space seperated list of simplesaml module directories to enable for authentication and filtering. Usually enabling one of these modules requires setting configuration settings for it in the authsources.php file.
• SIMPLESAML_SALT - an optional simplesaml salt value to use. A value will get auto-generated on first time startup if missing.

These variables are set using the setup.sh script, which runs in the filesender-phpfpm docker container the first time it starts up from the location /setup.sh.

simplesamlphp

To test out filesender using simplesamlphp authentication, run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/ualibraries/filesender-phpfpm.git
cd filesender-phpfpm/compose/simplesaml
docker-compose up

Then browse to http://localhost

To cleanup the above test instance, run:

git clone https://github.com/ualibraries/filesender-phpfpm.git
cd filesender-phpfpm/compose/simplesaml
docker-compose rm -fsv
docker volume prune  # Enter y

Look at the compose/simplesaml directory for a docker-compose example of how to quickly setup filesender with a fake user account using simplesamlphp.

Three docker containers will be created, validate by running docker ps -a

• simplesaml_web_1 - contains nginx
• simplesaml_fpm_1 - contains filesender running under fpm. Any docker mount of simplesamlphp configuration should get mounted to this container under /opt/simplesamlphp/config. External storage disk capacity should get docker mounted into the container at /data
• simplesaml_db-host_1 - contains mysql database used by filesender.

Quite a few more complex authentication options are available through simplesamlphp. Look at it's documentation for more details. In each case the authsources.php file will likely need to get modified and a module enabled through setting the SIMPLESAML_MODULES environment variable. More complex examples that would require certificates should have docker mount the /opt/simplesamlphp/config/ directory so the certs, config.php, and authsources.php are properly setup.

shibboleth

To test out filesender using shibboleth authentication, run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/ualibraries/filesender-phpfpm.git
cd filesender-phpfpm/compose/shibboleth
./setup-shib.sh

Closely follow the directions given at the end of running ./setup-shib.sh, following the REGISTER and FINALLY tagged instructions in order.

To cleanup the above test instance, run:

git clone https://github.com/ualibraries/filesender-phpfpm.git
cd filesender-phpfpm/compose/shibboleth
docker-compose rm -fsv
docker volume prune  # Enter y

Look at the compose/shibboleth directory for a docker-compose example of how to quickly setup filesender using shibboleth for authentication, using the following instructions. As previously mentioned, a public IP address or a valid DNS name pointing to a public IP address is needed to setup filesender with shibboleth.

Four docker containers will be created, validate by running docker ps -a

• shibboleth_web_1 - contains nginx
• shibboleth_fpm_1 - contains filesender running under fpm. External storage disk capacity should get docker mounted into the container at /data
• shibboleth_shib_1 - contains the shibboleth-sp instance. Any docker mount of shibboleth configuration should get mounted to this container under /etc/shibboleth
• shibboleth_db-host_1 - contains mysql database used by filesender.

If you have a DNS name pointing to a public IP, run:

./setup-shib.sh dns_name

Otherwise, just run in the shell

./setup-shib.sh

It will attempt to auto-calculate your public IP address.

After running, follow the instructions ./setup-shib.sh gives to REGISTER your shibboleth instance at testshib.org.

Finally, browse to the URL given at the end of ./setup-shib.sh

A public IP address is needed for the remote shibboleth-idp to send responses back to the local shibboleth-sp through nginx. If the docker image is running on a private IP behind a router NAT, it might be possible for the router to forward the shibboleth-idp responses through https to the private IP as long as the router has been given a public IP.

For production deployments, most organizations using shibboleth have a sample /etc/shibboleth/ that needs just a few configuration tweaks to connect the local shibboleth-sp docker image to the organization's shibboleth-idp. This tweaked /etc/shibboleth directory should be docker mounted into the shibboleth-sp docker container.

Note the organization's /etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml must have the following code block in it to correctly resource protect with nginx's fastcgi implementation of shibboleth-sp:

<RequestMapper type="XML">
  <RequestMap>
  <Host name="<change to your public ip or dns name>"
      authType="shibboleth"
      requireSession="true"
      redirectToSSL="443">
    <Path name="/index.php"/>
    <Path name="/rest.php"/>
  </Host>
  </RequestMap>
</RequestMapper>