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+title: PuppetShow
+---
+
+I have begun work on a simplistic web-based Puppet manager based on
+[Rails](http://rubyonrails.org), called PuppetShow.  It's in a very primitive
+state -- including having no authentication, so use at your own risk -- but
+it's a good proof of concept.
+
+To get it working, first check out the
+[code](https://reductivelabs.com/svn/puppetshow).  Then set up your apache
+config to serve it.  This is what mine looks like:
+
+    <VirtualHost 192.168.0.101:80 192.168.0.102:80 192.168.0.3:80>
+        ServerAdmin luke@madstop.com
+        SetEnv RAILS_ENV development
+        ServerName puppet.madstop.com
+        ServerAlias puppet
+        DocumentRoot /var/lib/puppetshow/public
+        ErrorLog /var/lib/puppetshow/log/apache.log
+
+        <Directory /var/lib/puppetshow/public/>
+            Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
+            AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
+            AllowOverride all
+            Order allow,deny
+            Allow from all
+        </Directory>
+    </VirtualHost>
+
+Now we just need to get the puppet internal stuff working.  We could use
+either ``rake`` or Puppet to do this, but for whatever reason I decided to use
+Puppet.  I've created a ``setup.pp`` file in the root of the tree, so you just
+need to modify that as appropriate (in particular, I have a Facter lib that
+sets ``$home`` for me, so you'll probably need to set that), then run:
+
+    sudo puppet -v setup.pp
+
+At that point you should have a functional app.  Like I said, there's no
+navigation at all, so you need to know what's out there.  The first thing you
+need to do is start a daemon that this app can connect to.  Pick your victim,
+create a namespace auth file (defaults to
+``/etc/puppet/namespaceauth.conf``):
+    
+    [fileserver]
+        allow *.madstop.com
+
+    [puppetmaster]
+        allow *.madstop.com
+
+    [pelementserver]
+        allow puppet.madstop.com
+
+Then start your client:
+
+    puppetd -v --listen --no-client
+
+Here we're telling it to start the listening daemon but not to run the config.
+You can obviously use whatever options you want, though.
+
+Now you should be able to just go to your app.  At this point, you need to
+know the name of the machine you want to connect to and the name of a type to
+look at.  Say you're connecting to culain (my workstation's name), and you
+want to look at users; this would be your URL:
+http://puppet.domain.com/remote/culain/user/list
+
+Replace as appropriate for your site.