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Re: Making eXo Platform available at the root URL using Apache
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created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/hgomez">Henri Gomez</a> in <i>JBoss Portal</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/643425#643425">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>May I suggest you following settings ?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><strong>httpd.conf</strong> : </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>ProxyPass  / ajp://localhost:8009/</p><p>ProxyPassReverse / ajp://localhost:8009/</p><p>ProxyPreserveHost On</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>You could use also mod_jk :</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><strong>workers.properties</strong> :</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>worker.list=w1</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p># Set properties for worker1 (ajp13)</p><p>worker.w1.type=ajp13</p><p>worker.w1.host=localhost</p><p>worker.w1.port=8009</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><strong>httpd.conf</strong> : </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>...</p><p>JkMount  /* w1</p><p>...</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><blockquote class="jive-quote"><p>biscuit a écrit:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>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:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span>     </span><a class="" href="http://community.jboss.org/myserver:port/portal/private/myportal" target="_blank">http://myserver:port/portal/private/myportal</a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>are made available at:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span>     </span><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://myserver/" target="_blank">http://myserver/</a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>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:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>     ProxyPass  / ajp://localhost:8009/portal/private/myportal/</p><p>     ProxyPassReverse / ajp://localhost:8009/portal/private/myportal/</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>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:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>     eXo.env.portal.portalName</p><p>     eXo.env.server.context</p><p>     eXo.env.server.portalBaseURL</p><p>     eXo.env.portal.context</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>However, documentation on eXoPlatform's website is a bit sparse and the only thing I can find is <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://wiki.exoplatform.org/xwiki/bin/view/Portal/Changing%20eXo%20URL">this</a>, 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.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>So I have a few questions:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><ul><li>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)?</li><li>Will the above properties help?</li><li>Is the use of mod_substitute the only way of achieving this?</li></ul><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Thanks in advance for any help!</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Rich</p></blockquote><blockquote class="jive-quote"><p>biscuit a écrit:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>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:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span>     </span><a class="" href="http://community.jboss.org/myserver:port/portal/private/myportal" target="_blank">http://myserver:port/portal/private/myportal</a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>are made available at:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span>     </span><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://myserver/" target="_blank">http://myserver/</a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>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:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>     ProxyPass  / ajp://localhost:8009/portal/private/myportal/</p><p>     ProxyPassReverse / ajp://localhost:8009/portal/private/myportal/</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>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:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>     eXo.env.portal.portalName</p><p>     eXo.env.server.context</p><p>     eXo.env.server.portalBaseURL</p><p>     eXo.env.portal.context</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>However, documentation on eXoPlatform's website is a bit sparse and the only thing I can find is <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://wiki.exoplatform.org/xwiki/bin/view/Portal/Changing%20eXo%20URL">this</a>, 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.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>So I have a few questions:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><ul><li>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)?</li><li>Will the above properties help?</li><li>Is the use of mod_substitute the only way of achieving this?</li></ul><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Thanks in advance for any help!</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Rich</p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br/></span></p></div>
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