Install andConfigure OpenStack Dashboard Service (Horizon)

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　　Based on OpenStack Havana release
　　

　　Install and Configure OpenStack Dashboard Service (Horizon)
on controller node or any hosts that running dashboard:
yum -y install memcached python-memcached mod_wsgi openstack-dashboard

vi /etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings
#ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['horizon.example.com', 'localhost']
OPENSTACK_HOST = "controller"
TIME_ZONE = "Asia/Shanghai"
　　# no space on left side for CACHES

　　CACHES = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND' : 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache',
        'LOCATION' : '127.0.0.1:11211',
    }
}

#CACHES = {
#    'default': {
#        'BACKEND' : 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache'
#    }
#}
　　
vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
　　# must match OPENSTACK_HOST = "controller"
　　ServerName controller:80

　　

　　service httpd start; chkconfig httpd on
service memcached start; chkconfig memcached on
　　

　　on anything hosts, login with http://controller/dashboard (vi /etc/hosts to add items)
　　

　　

　　for changing above items value, please edit nova.conf on nova controller node

　　

　　To use HTTPS:
　　cd /etc/pki/tls/certs

# Generate private key
openssl genrsa -out server.key 2048

# Generate CSR
openssl req -new -days 3650 -key server.key -out server.csr
Common Name; controller

# Generate Self Signed Key
openssl x509 -req -days 3650 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt

yum -y install mod_ssl

vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf
SSLCertificateFile  /etc/pki/tls/certs/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile  /etc/pki/tls/certs/server.key

vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
　　or

　　vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/openstack-dashboard.conf
　　# add at the last
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$
RewriteRule .* https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]

service httpd restart
　　and
　　service memcached restart

　　

　　now login with http://controller/dashboard will redirect to https://controller/dashboard