9.7.1 Remote Access to Management Interface

To make the management interface available remotely, use the Control statement in a Service section:

ListenHTTP
    Address 192.0.2.1
    Port 80
    Service
        Control
    End
End

This configuration makes management interface accessible via ‘http://192.0.2.1/’. Due to obvious security implications, you’d be better off protecting the Control endpoint using HTTPS, ACLs and/or basic authorization. The example below illustrates all these techniques:

ListenHTTPS
    Address 192.0.2.1
    Port 443
    Cert "/etc/ssl/priv/example.pem"
    Disable TLSv1
    
    Service
        Not BasicAuth "pound/htpasswd"
        Rewrite response
            SetHeader "WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=\"Restricted access\""
        End
        Error 401
    End
    
    Service
        ACL "secure"
        Control
    End
End

See Authentication, for a discussion of BasicAuth statement, and see ACL for a discussion of access control lists (this example assumes that the ACL ‘secure’ is defined elsewhere in the configuration file).

If you wish to make management interface available under a special path, make sure the path prefix is stripped off, e.g.:

Service
    URL -re "^/control(/.+)"
    SetURL "$1"
    Control
End

See Service Request and Response Modification, for details about SetURL statement and request modification in general.