VPN to one server
Tony Arnold
tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Sat Nov 10 11:31:38 UTC 2012
Jacob,
On 10/11/12 10:42, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a web app that contains very sensitive information, and one of
> the security requirements is that it must be accessed over a VPN. My
> current network setup is like this:
> [iPad]---[AP]---[eth0 at myServer]
> Like this, the iPad just browses to the local IP of the server.
> what I want to set up is a tunnel between the iPad and gunicorn in such
> a way that all data between gunicorn and the iPad is encrypted.
>
> Is this possible? if so, how would I go about setting it up?
Possibly the simplest way of doing this is to get an SSL certificate and
configure the web server to use https instead of http. This assumes all
the sensitive data is only being transferred via a web application.
Regards,
Tony.
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