PuppetBoard: Upgrading WTForms to latest version and restoring CSRF Protection (#250)

Upgrading the following packages to the respected versions:

WTForms==2.1
Flask-WTF==0.12
Werkzeug==0.11.0

Passing newly required metadata to the QueryForm constructor in puppetboard/app.py

Apache >= 2.4 with mod_wsgi experienced a major issue where it would re-generate
the app's secret key on each request. The fix for this turned out to be placing
a permanent statis 'secret_key' value in the wsgi.py. Adding a block in README.rst
on how to implement the user's own secret_key
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Corey Hammerton
2016-06-23 20:32:31 -04:00
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parent adac2a46bf
commit da044271ee
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@@ -287,6 +287,24 @@ puppetboard directory:
Make sure this file is readable by the user the webserver runs as.
Flask requires a static secret_key in order to protect itself from CSRF exploits.
The default secret_key in ``default_settings.py`` generates a random 24 character
string, however this string is re-generated on each request under httpd >= 2.4.
To generate your own secret_key create a python script with the following content
and run it once:
.. code_block:: python
import os
print os.random(24)
Copy the output and add the following to your ``wsgi.py`` file:
.. code_block:: python
application.secret_key = '<your secret key>'
The last thing we need to do is configure Apache.
Here is a sample configuration for Debian and Ubuntu: