Have a certain path of the GUI not requiring password

[testdasi]

I have proxy scripts on the Unraid server that I want to let all the household devices to use freely..

 

What I have been doing is piggy-backing on organizr docker and map its container path (e.g. map container /etc/emhttp/proxy to host /mnt/cache/proxy). That way any user on the network can point their browser / internet settings to http://192.168.1.2:89/proxy/proxy1.pac for proxy configuration i.e. no need smb / nfs etc to access public share. This works really well but it requires the array and docker to start.

 

Then I realised Unraid itself has a built-in web-server (aka the GUI) so I can have the proxy scripts on the flash drive and do a boot script to copy them to /etc/emhttp and it should work without the need to even start the array.

 

Does anyone know how to exclude a certain path of the GUI from requiring root password to access?

 

E.g. I want to exclude /etc/emhttp/proxy (which is mapped to http://192.168.1.2/proxy) so:

• If I point to http://192.168.1.2/proxy/proxy1.pac, the file is served without asking for password.
• If I point a browser to http://192.168.1.2/, it will ask for password since that's the Unraid GUI.

 

Thanks.

Edited June 7, 2019 by testdasi