Access the RWS Development Environment with Firefox

Projects: c2platform/rws/ansible

Introduction

The Ansible inventory project c2platform/rws/ansible simulates a setup with two environments: a development environment gsd and a “test” environment gst. The gst environment allows you to experiment with a GitOps Pipeline. This environment is optional and is currently used for:

• GitOps Pipeline for an Execution Environment (EE) with Ansible Collections

These environments are set up as a sandbox. The domain c2platform.org does not resolve to services on the internet but to services accessed through the reverse proxy node gsd-rproxy1 (or gst-rproxy1).

Create a Firefox Profile

It is strongly recommended to create a dedicated Firefox profile to keep your regular browsing separate from accessing the RWS Development Environment. Follow Mozilla’s guide on Profile Manager - Create, remove or switch Firefox profiles  .

You can access the Firefox Profile Manager in two ways:

1. Run the command firefox -no-remote -P.
2. Type about:profiles in the Firefox address bar to create and manage your Firefox profiles.

Once you have your dedicated profile ready, proceed with the following settings.

Configure Network Settings

In your dedicated profile, configure network settings for the gsd or gst environment:

Import CA Bundle

To prevent continuous TLS/SSL certificate errors when accessing the services, import the C2 root certificate located at ~/git/gitlab/c2/ansible-gis/.ca/c2/c2.crt through the Firefox Certificates settings.

Verify

1. Navigate to https://c2platform.org/is-alive  . You should see the text “Apache is alive.” If you see this message, your browser is correctly configured to access services from the GIS platform.

2. Access the landing pages for the gsd and gst environments by navigating to https://gsd.c2platform.org/  and https://gst.c2platform.org/  .

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3. Access the C2 Platform community website at https://c2platform.org/  . Note that this is a local deployment of the website inside gsd-rproxy1 (and gst-rproxy1).

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