Posts Tagged ‘nginx’

Using nginx to enable custom domains in Auth0

Sunday, December 2nd, 2018

In this post, I’m sharing the nginx config needed to set up a reverse proxy for enabling custom domains in Auth0.

I’ll start by explaining why I needed this, but if you don’t care about that, you can just skip straight to the code.

I’ve mentioned before that I use Auth0 for authentication and authorization in Machine Learning for Kids. (And I’ve mentioned before that the developer experience using Auth0 is generally fantastic).

But I’ve had one auth-related complaint from schools since launching the site. And it’s been increasing in the last couple of months:

Users who have their web browsers set to block third-party cookies weren’t able to log in.

This is because the cookies were coming from an auth0.com domain, and not machinelearningforkids.co.uk.

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How to create a Twitter API proxy using nginx in Cloud Foundry

Sunday, November 18th, 2018

In this post, I’ll describe how to run nginx in Cloud Foundry to provide a Twitter API proxy that includes authentication and caching.

First, I want to talk a bit about why I wanted this, but if you don’t care about any of that, you can just skip to the code at the end of the post. 🙂

I’ve wanted for a while to enable projects in Machine Learning for Kids that use tweets. Using live tweets is a great way to make text analytics real for students, and a good example of how natural language processing is used in the real world.

The question was how to enable this from Scratch in a way that would be easy to use by schools.

The title of this post gives away the answer I ended up with, but I’ll describe why.

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