Setup an Ajaxterm with Apache on CentOS / RHEL

How to setup an ajaxterm in CentOS and RHEL.

Ajaxterm is not available in the official CentOS / RHEL repo. But there is an rpm available from the . You can google for “Ajaxterm-0.10-8.el5.noarch.rpm”. Or find a list of mirrors .

Install ajaxterm:

# rpm -i Ajaxterm-0.10-8.el5.noarch.rpm

Ajaxterm is now listening only locally on .
The ajaxterm files are located in /usr/share/ajaxterm.

Follow the next instructions if you want to use ajaxterm from any remote host.

You really should use SSL to encrypt your ajaxterm sessions. Have a look at to activate it on your server.

When done just edit the /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf file.
Add the following lines at the end of the file just before the final ““:


ProxyRequests Off

Order deny,allow
Allow from all

ProxyPass /ajaxterm
ProxyPassReverse /ajaxterm
 


Restart apache:

# /etc/init.d/httpd restart

Now your ajaxterm is reachable over . But you also could change “/ajaxterm” to whatever you want.

If you want a bigger console, just edit those two files:

# nano /usr/share/ajaxterm/ajaxterm.html

Edit the Line:

t=ajaxterm.Terminal("term",120,50); width: 120, heigth: 50

And in:

# nano /usr/share/ajaxterm/ajaxterm.py

the Line:

def __init__(self,width=120,height=50):

P.S.: For ajaxterm on Debian / Ubuntu look at: http://www.tbaumi.de/blog/?p=113