CruiseControl, ProxyPass

Dear blog, today I submitted a patch for CruiseControl. It feels great to give something back (even if it's half-baked).

I couldn't find a way to make CC give the correct URL to users when running in a configuration like below:

ProxyVia On
ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/
(...)

CC would insist on building URLs using localhost:8080 even though the user can only access via http://your.host.com/. With the patch CruiseControl will use the X-Forwarded-Host HTTP header to build the correct address.

CruiseControl as a windows service

CruiseControl 2.7 comes with a wrapper that enables it to run as a native windows service. However, the default configuration does not start the web HTTP service, only the JMX stuff.

To enable it just edit the existing wrapper.conf in your CruiseControl install directory (C:\Program Files\CruiseControl\wrapper.conf) and add the following lines just below the similar ones:

wrapper.app.parameter.6=-webport
wrapper.app.parameter.7=8080
wrapper.app.parameter.8=-rmiport
wrapper.app.parameter.9=1099

Change 8080 to whatever port you want CC's web server to listen.