Shield

Authentication shield for web apps

Configuration

Configuration is read form config/config.json.

apps

Define routing or application modules.

• routing (proxy)

    {
      "name": "Application",
      "path": "app",
      "alias": "/test/app"
      "url": "http://localhost:8080"
    }

• application module

    {
      "name": "Application",
      "path": "app",
      "module": "app-module",
      "config": {
        "compress": true
      }
    }

hostname

Setting to limit listening interfaces.

port

Custom listening port, default is 8080.

tls

Enables https module by specifying certificate/key pair in pem format.

• key - private key
• cert - public certificate
• ca - certificate issuing authority

sso

Enables third party authentication through json web tokens.

• url - handshake server
• cert - server certificate in pem format

plugins

Customization of internal services, when you need to pass config it has form of an array [ module, config (optional) ]

• authentication - authentication provider
  1. BasicAuthentication (default)
  2. CertificateAuthentication
• logging - custom logging output

  async (morgan, executeSync, config) => {}