is done through an LDAP or LDAPS connection to Active Directory.  The

following LDAP configuration settings are typical for using Active

Directory ::

 Base DN              = OU=SBSUsers,OU=Users,OU=MyBusiness,DC=v3sys,DC=local

 Login Attribute      = sAMAccountName

 First Name Attribute = givenName

 Last Name Attribute  = sn

 E-mail Attribute     = mail

All other LDAP settings will likely be site-specific and should be

appropriately configured.

Authentication by container or reverse-proxy

--------------------------------------------

Kallithea supports delegating the authentication

of users to its WSGI container, or to a reverse-proxy server through which all

clients access the application.

When these authentication methods are enabled in Kallithea, it uses the

username that the container/proxy (Apache/Nginx/etc) authenticated and doesn't

perform the authentication itself. The authorization, however, is still done by

Kallithea according to its settings.

When a user logs in for the first time using these authentication methods,

a matching user account is created in Kallithea with default permissions. An

administrator can then modify it using Kallithea's admin interface.

It's also possible for an administrator to create accounts and configure their

permissions before the user logs in for the first time.

Container-based authentication

''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''

In a container-based authentication setup, Kallithea reads the user name from

the ``REMOTE_USER`` server variable provided by the WSGI container.

After setting up your container (see `Apache's WSGI config`_), you'd need

to configure it to require authentication on the location configured for

Kallithea.

Proxy pass-through authentication

'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''

In a proxy pass-through authentication setup, Kallithea reads the user name

from the ``X-Forwarded-User`` request header, which should be configured to be

sent by the reverse-proxy server.

After setting up your proxy solution (see `Apache virtual host reverse proxy example`_,

`Apache as subdirectory`_ or `Nginx virtual host example`_), you'd need to

configure the authentication and add the username in a request header named

``X-Forwarded-User``.

For example, the following config section for Apache sets a subdirectory in a

reverse-proxy setup with basic auth::

    <Location /<someprefix> >

      ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:5000/<someprefix>

      ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:5000/<someprefix>

      SetEnvIf X-Url-Scheme https HTTPS=1

      AuthType Basic

      AuthName "Kallithea authentication"

      AuthUserFile /home/web/kallithea/.htpasswd

      require valid-user

      RequestHeader unset X-Forwarded-User

      RewriteEngine On

      RewriteCond %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER} (.+)

      RewriteRule .* - [E=RU:%1]

      RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-User %{RU}e

    </Location>

.. note::

   If you enable proxy pass-through authentication, make sure your server is

   only accessible through the proxy. Otherwise, any client would be able to

   forge the authentication header and could effectively become authenticated

   using any account of their liking.

Integration with Issue trackers

-------------------------------

Kallithea provides a simple integration with issue trackers. It's possible

to define a regular expression that will fetch issue id stored in commit

messages and replace that with an url to this issue. To enable this simply

uncomment following variables in the ini file::

    issue_pat = (?:^#|\s#)(\w+)

    issue_server_link = https://myissueserver.com/{repo}/issue/{id}

    issue_prefix = #

  <a href="https://myissueserver.com/example_repo/issue/300">ISSUE-300</a>

Hook management

---------------

Hooks can be managed in similar way to this used in .hgrc files.

To access hooks setting click `advanced setup` on Hooks section of Mercurial

Settings in Admin.

There are 4 built in hooks that cannot be changed (only enable/disable by

checkboxes on previos section).

To add another custom hook simply fill in first section with

<name>.<hook_type> and the second one with hook path. Example hooks

can be found at *kallithea.lib.hooks*.

Changing default encoding

-------------------------

By default Kallithea uses utf8 encoding, starting from 1.3 series this

can be changed, simply edit default_encoding in .ini file to desired one.

This affects many parts in Kallithea including committers names, filenames,

encoding of commit messages. In addition Kallithea can detect if `chardet`

library is installed. If `chardet` is detected Kallithea will fallback to it

when there are encode/decode errors.

Setting Up Celery

-----------------

Since version 1.1 celery is configured by the Kallithea ini configuration files.

Simply set use_celery=true in the ini file then add / change the configuration

variables inside the ini file.

Remember that the ini files use the format with '.' not with '_' like celery.

So for example setting `BROKER_HOST` in celery means setting `broker.host` in

the config file.

In order to start using celery run::

 paster celeryd <configfile.ini>

.. note::

   Make sure you run this command from the same virtualenv, and with the same

   user that Kallithea runs.

HTTPS support

-------------

Kallithea will by default generate URLs based on the WSGI environment.

Alternatively, you can use some special configuration settings to control

directly which scheme/protocol Kallithea will use when generating URLs:

- With `https_fixup = true`, the scheme will be taken from the HTTP_X_URL_SCHEME,

  HTTP_X_FORWARDED_SCHEME or HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO HTTP header (default 'http').

- With `force_https = true` the default will be 'https'.

- With `use_htsts = true`, it will set Strict-Transport-Security when using https.

Nginx virtual host example

--------------------------

Sample config for nginx using proxy::

    upstream rc {

        server 127.0.0.1:5000;

        # add more instances for load balancing

        #server 127.0.0.1:5001;

        #server 127.0.0.1:5002;

    }

    ## gist alias

    server {

       listen          443;

       server_name     gist.myserver.com;

       access_log      /var/log/nginx/gist.access.log;

       error_log       /var/log/nginx/gist.error.log;

       ssl on;

       ssl_certificate     gist.your.kallithea.server.crt;

       ssl_certificate_key gist.your.kallithea.server.key;

       ssl_session_timeout 5m;

       ssl_protocols SSLv3 TLSv1;

       ssl_ciphers DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:AES256-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:AES128-SHA:RC4-SHA:RC4-MD5;

       ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

       rewrite ^/(.+)$ https://your.kallithea.server/_admin/gists/$1;

       rewrite (.*)    https://your.kallithea.server/_admin/gists;

    }

    server {

       listen          443;

       server_name     your.kallithea.server;

       access_log      /var/log/nginx/kallithea.access.log;

       error_log       /var/log/nginx/kallithea.error.log;