wonderwall/docs/configuration.md

Configuration

Wonderwall can be configured using either command-line flags or equivalent environment variables (i.e. -, . -> _ and uppercase), with WONDERWALL_ as prefix. E.g.:

openid.client-id -> WONDERWALL_OPENID_CLIENT_ID

The following flags are available:

Flag	Type	Description	Default Value
auto-login	boolean	Automatically redirect all HTTP GET requests to login if the user does not have a valid session for all matching upstream paths.
auto-login-ignore-paths	strings	Comma separated list of absolute paths to ignore when auto-login is enabled. Supports basic wildcard matching with glob-style asterisks. Invalid patterns are ignored.
bind-address	string	Listen address for public connections.	127.0.0.1:3000
cookie-prefix	string	Prefix for cookie names.	io.nais.wonderwall
encryption-key	string	Base64 encoded 256-bit cookie encryption key; must be identical in instances that share session store.
ingress	strings	Comma separated list of ingresses used to access the main application.
log-format	string	Log format, either json or text.	json
log-level	string	Logging verbosity level.	info
metrics-bind-address	string	Listen address for metrics only.	127.0.0.1:3001
openid.acr-values	string	Space separated string that configures the default security level (acr_values) parameter for authorization requests.
openid.audiences	strings	List of additional trusted audiences (other than the client_id) for OpenID Connect id_token validation.
openid.client-id	string	Client ID for the OpenID client.
openid.client-jwk	string	JWK containing the private key for the OpenID client in string format.
openid.post-logout-redirect-uri	string	URI for redirecting the user after successful logout at the Identity Provider.
openid.provider	string	Provider configuration to load and use, either openid, azure, idporten.	openid
openid.resource-indicator	string	OAuth2 resource indicator to include in authorization request for acquiring audience-restricted tokens.
openid.scopes	strings	List of additional scopes (other than openid) that should be used during the login flow.
openid.ui-locales	string	Space-separated string that configures the default UI locale (ui_locales) parameter for OAuth2 consent screen.
openid.well-known-url	string	URI to the well-known OpenID Configuration metadata document.
redis.address	string	Address of Redis. An empty value will use in-memory session storage.
redis.connection-idle-timeout	int	Idle timeout for Redis connections, in seconds. If non-zero, the value should be less than the client timeout configured at the Redis server. A value of -1 disables timeout. Default is 30 minutes.	1800
redis.password	string	Password for Redis.
redis.tls	boolean	Whether or not to use TLS for connecting to Redis.	true
redis.username	string	Username for Redis.
session.inactivity	boolean	Automatically expire user sessions if they have not refreshed their tokens within a given duration.
session.inactivity-timeout	duration	Inactivity timeout for user sessions.	30m
session.max-lifetime	duration	Max lifetime for user sessions.	1h
session.refresh	boolean	Enable refresh tokens. In standalone mode, will automatically refresh tokens if they are expired as long as the session is valid (i.e. not exceeding session.max-lifetime or session.inactivity-timeout).
sso.domain	string	The domain that the session cookies should be set for, usually the second-level domain name (e.g. example.com).
sso.enabled	boolean	Enable single sign-on mode; one server acting as the OIDC Relying Party, and N proxies. The proxies delegate most endpoint operations to the server, and only implements a reverse proxy that reads the user's session data from the shared store.
sso.mode	string	The SSO mode for this instance. Must be one of server or proxy.	server
sso.server-default-redirect-url	string	The URL that the SSO server should redirect to by default if a given redirect query parameter is invalid.
sso.server-url	string	The URL used by the proxy to point to the SSO server instance.
sso.session-cookie-name	string	Session cookie name. Must be the same across all SSO Servers and Proxies that should share sessions.
upstream-host	string	Address of upstream host.	127.0.0.1:8080
upstream-ip	string	IP of upstream host. Overrides 'upstream-host' if set.
upstream-port	int	Port of upstream host. Overrides 'upstream-host' if set.

Boolean flags are by default set to false unless noted otherwise.

String/strings flags are by default empty unless noted otherwise.

Duration flags support Go duration strings, e.g.10h, 5m, 30s, etc.

Production Use

The bind-address configuration should be set to listen to a public interface, e.g. 0.0.0.0:3000. The default value only listens to the loopback interface, i.e. localhost - which makes it unavailable for services outside the Kubernetes Pod.

The encryption-key configuration should be set. Otherwise, a random key will be generated and used - which will not persist between restarts. Sessions will also be rendered invalid as they're unable to be decrypted.

The redis.address configuration should be set. Otherwise, an in-memory store is used. This is especially important if you're running multiple replicas of your application that should share the same sessions.

Modes

Wonderwall has two runtime modes, a standalone mode and a single sign-on (SSO) mode. See the architecture document for further details.

Standalone Mode (Default)

The default configuration of Wonderwall will start in standalone mode.

At minimum, the following configuration must be provided when in standalone mode:

• openid.client-id
• openid.client-jwk
• openid.well-known-url
• ingress

Single Sign-On (SSO) Mode

When the sso.enabled flag is enabled, Wonderwall will start in SSO mode.

There are two possible modes when in SSO mode. This is controlled with the sso.mode flag; the default value is server.

SSO Server

When the sso.enabled flag is enabled and the sso.mode flag is set to server, Wonderwall will start in SSO server mode.

At minimum, the following configuration must be provided when in SSO server mode:

• openid.client-id
• openid.client-jwk
• openid.well-known-url
• ingress
• redis.address
• sso.domain
• sso.session-cookie-name
• sso.server-default-redirect-url

SSO Proxy

When the sso.enabled flag is enabled and the sso.mode flag is set to proxy, Wonderwall will start in SSO proxy mode.

At minimum, the following configuration must be provided when in SSO proxy mode:

• ingress
• redis.address
• sso.session-cookie-name
• sso.server-url

Configuration Flag Details

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auto-login-ignore-paths

List of paths or patterns to ignore when auto-login is enabled.

The paths must be absolute paths. The match patterns use glob-style matching.

Example Match Patterns (click to expand)

• /allowed or /allowed/
  • Trailing slashes in paths and patterns are effectively ignored during matching.
  • ✅ matches:
    • /allowed
    • /allowed/
  • ❌ does not match:
    • /allowed/nope
    • /allowed/nope/
• /public/*
  • A single asterisk after a path means any subpath directly below the path, excluding itself and any nested paths.
  • ✅ matches:
    • /public/a
  • ❌ does not match:
    • /public
    • /public/a/b
• /public/**
  • Double asterisks means any subpath below the path, including itself and any nested paths.
  • ✅ matches:
    • /public
    • /public/a
    • /public/a/b
  • ❌ does not match:
    • /not/public
    • /not/public/a
• /any*
  • ✅ matches:
    • /any
    • /anything
    • /anywho
  • ❌ does not match:
    • /any/thing
    • /anywho/mst/ve
• /a/*/*
  • ✅ matches:
    • /a/b/c
    • /a/bee/cee
  • ❌ does not match:
    • /a
    • /a/b
    • /a/b/c/d
• /static/**/*.js
  • ✅ matches:
    • /static/bundle.js
    • /static/min/bundle.js
    • /static/vendor/min/bundle.js
  • ❌ does not match:
    • /static
    • /static/some.css
    • /static/min
    • /static/min/some.css
    • /static/vendor/min/some.css

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openid.provider

ID-porten

When the openid.provider flag is set to idporten, the following environment variables are bound to the required openid flags described previously:

• IDPORTEN_CLIENT_ID
  Client ID for the client at ID-porten.
• IDPORTEN_CLIENT_JWK
  Private key belonging to the client in JWK format.
• IDPORTEN_WELL_KNOWN_URL
  Well-known OpenID Configuration endpoint for ID-porten: https://docs.digdir.no/oidc_func_wellknown.html.

The default values for the following flags are also changed:

Flag	Value
openid.acr-values	Level4
openid.ui-locales	nb

Azure AD

When the openid.provider flag is set to azure, the following environment variables are bound to the required flags described previously:

• AZURE_APP_CLIENT_ID
  Client ID for the client at Azure AD.
• AZURE_APP_CLIENT_JWK
  Private key belonging to the client in JWK format.
• AZURE_APP_WELL_KNOWN_URL
  Well-known OpenID Configuration endpoint for Azure AD.