Added configuration of gx-it-proxy to support path-based proxying

[sveinugu]

Part of solution for galaxyproject/galaxy#14690. To be synced with galaxyproject/gx-it-proxy#14 and galaxyproject/galaxy#15147.

[hexylena]

does this need a corresponding gravity/process_manager/systemd change?

[sveinugu]

@hexylena You mean in the "systemd-pm" branch? As it is an alternative process manager, I suppose so. But I cannot find the other configs there and this is anyway a bit out of my league. This is anyway just to be able to override the default value which is put together from the galaxy config and which probably should suffice in the large majority of cases.

[hexylena]

Ahh I thought that had been merged already, my mistake. Maybe @natefoo can provide pull this change in there eventually.

[natefoo]

Yeah I can handle merging forward to 1.x

[natefoo]

Superseded by #100, thanks @sveinugu!

[sveinugu]

Superseded by #100, thanks @sveinugu!

Thanks @natefoo! Perhaps the required version of gx-proxy-it be set in galaxy and/or gravity, or is that now done?

[natefoo]

Since it runs via npx, the proxy is installed in ~/.cache/_npx. If you remove that, or run npx clear-npx-cache that should cause it to be reinstalled at the latest version the next time it runs. We don't have a mechanism for pinning it currently, but we could possibly add one to Galaxy.

[sveinugu]

Since it runs via npx, the proxy is installed in ~/.cache/_npx. If you remove that, or run npx clear-npx-cache that should cause it to be reinstalled at the latest version the next time it runs. We don't have a mechanism for pinning it currently, but we could possibly add one to Galaxy.

I see. Since the addition of the new parameter will break a non-updated gx-it-proxy, one should probably somehow make sure that it is automatically updated when existing installations are updated, even if a version is not pinned. Is there anything that ensures this? The mechanism for updating is so obscure that I am afraid we will cause headaches for lots of admins otherwise.

[natefoo]

That is a good point - I'll dig into this or ask one of the Node experts if there's a good solution.

[natefoo]

Ok, I think we're best off just doing this in Gravity. Instead of npx gx-it-proxy ... we can do npx gx-it-proxy@0.0.5 ... and it will automatically update. I'll create a PR for this shortly.