Neo4j: Ubuntu hosted endpoint protection on Microsoft Azure

Question

I am trying to host the neo4j server on an Azure Ubuntu VM and opened up the endpoint to enable access from my machine so that I can access the webadmin portal and also debug Asp.net portal code from my machine.

I am however unable to understand how to password protect the access to neo4j endpoint on that VM so that its not open for everyone on the net. looking for at least a simple protection like:

http://<user>:<pass>@myneo4j.cloudapp.net:7474/db/data

Is there any guide on how to setup the neo4j on the Azure cloud that I can refer to.

I found authentication-extension but unable to understand if this is all i need when setting up connection via Neo4jClient

Regards Kiran

Answer 1

Once I downloaded the right version of 'authentication-extension' and put it in the plugin folder, it was exactly what i wanted,

added few users and pointed the URI to database as below :

http(s)://<user>:<pass>@myneo4j.cloudapp.net:7474/db/data.

and that's all I needed to protect my back end like old fashion SQL server ways.

Answer 2

If you use ubuntu you can set up nginx as reverse proxy: http://joewhite86.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/secure-neo4j-webadmin-using-http-auth-and-ssl/