Is there anyone in this channel who can talk to me about the Rails Port's "authenticity token" system? I have been implementing a new, customized Rails Port instance for https://opengeofiction.net/ . It's working well but I am having nightmare problems with two things:
Is there anyone who can give me insights into what might be going wrong. I am not a Ruby on Rails developer or even particularly comfortable with the environment. I have a background in Database admin and design and I am comfortable with most aspects of Linux sysadmin. asked 02 Sep '21, 18:26  Luciano AK |
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Firstly, thank you to my one responder, for their suggestion. Apparently, the openstreetmap-website ("rails port") expects that a production instance will have a tool called memcache installed. It was another member of our team who figured this out, so I don't have the details, but I think that's enough of a hint if someone finds this question in the future and is trying to solve the issue. Although we are still running the "rails port" as a development instance (rather than production), we are doing so as a de facto production instance, with 100's of active users. This level of deployment requires memcache to manage the authenticity tokens, I guess. If I get more details from my colleague about specific steps he took, I'll amend this answer. Meanwhile, our site is up and running quite well, now. answered 04 Sep '21, 17:44 Luciano AK |
Can you explain the changes you have made to the "original", or do you have your version on GitHub somewhere?
@Frederik - I'm sorry we don't have it on github. It's all kind of experimental. In the long run, we hope to formally "fork" openstreetmap-website and post our changes, but we're not there right now.
Meanwhile, the site is up and seems to be working. We've let in a limited number of users and we're doing testing. Not going to claim victory, yet, but the Authenticity Token errors appear to have gone away. We did a bunch of google-fu and dug up what seemed to have worked. I promise I'll post what we did once I'm confident it worked.
You're free to browse the website:
https://opengeofiction.net
Anyway thank you so much for taking the time to respond.