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"Making eXo Platform available at the root URL using Apache"

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I have been asked to front an eXo Platform installation (running on Tomcat) with Apache HTTPD in such a way that URLs that are normally available at:

      http://myserver:port/portal/private/myportal http://myserver:port/portal/private/myportal

are made available at:

      http://myserver/ http://myserver/

I have made some progress with lots of ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse directives mapping /public, /eXoResources, etc to their corresponding ajp:// URLs, before having a final catch--all entry:

     ProxyPass  / ajp://localhost:8009/portal/private/myportal/
     ProxyPassReverse / ajp://localhost:8009/portal/private/myportal/

But it still gets stuck on various bits of JavaScript and so-on which are generated on the Tomcat side and refer to the Tomcat URL. There are various properties that can be set to control how this JavaScript gets generated:

     eXo.env.portal.portalName
     eXo.env.server.context
     eXo.env.server.portalBaseURL
     eXo.env.portal.context

However, documentation on eXoPlatform's website is a bit sparse and the only thing I can find is  http://wiki.exoplatform.org/xwiki/bin/view/Portal/Changing%20eXo%20URL this, which seems to avoid modifying configuration on the Tomcat side, and instead relies on Apache doing massses of in-line modification of Tomcat's responses using mod_substitute, which I really don't like the look of.

So I have a few questions:

* Is this approach fundamentally flawed - is it actually possible to achieve what we want or does it introduce ambiguity into the URLs (eg what do we do with the few /public/ URLs we have)?
* Will the above properties help?
* Is the use of mod_substitute the only way of achieving this?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Rich
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