cellxgene-gateway-proxy.md

Cellxgene Gateway/Apache2 Reverse Proxy with Authentication

Contributors:

Fabian Rost and Alexandre Mestiashvili

Hosting Use Case:

• Private self-hosting of multiple datasets for multiple groups
• Groups only have access to datasets that they "own"
• Password Authentication

General description:

Start multiple cellxgene-gateway instances for each of the different user groups and use a reverse proxy for authentication and forwarding to the different cellxgene instances.

Components:

• Cellxgene Gateway: the application to be run
• Apache Reverse Proxy: used as a reverse proxy to redirect web requests and provide authentication

Tutorial and Code:

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