[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBPORTAL-1004) Jboss Portal to support virtual hosts

Sat Sep 16 19:34:48 EDT 2006

    [ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPORTAL-1004?page=comments#action_12343416 ] 

Sverker Abrahamsson commented on JBPORTAL-1004:
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I've done some more investigations and see that the first solution with separate contexts is the way to go. Why? Because isolation is needed between the applications.

With the implementation where the virtual-host/context-path information is bound to the Portal object then if I deploy my portal to http://portaltest.abrahamsson.com then I can access the default portal on http://portaltest.abrahamsson.com/portal/default/. Well, sort of since the portlets are rendered but images etc can't be loaded, since they are in a different web application context.

That is essentially the point, like the servlet container maintains different contexts to isolate different applications so does the portal server need to do. This turned out to work supprisingly well in the first approach I did, the rest of the app seams to be designed with multiple contexts in mind even if the model isn't.

What needs to be discussed is how it should be specified in the *-object.xml file which context a portal should be deployed to. I find that the most logical is that unless a parent ref is specified then it should be bound to the context created by the war. If the parent ref is empty (i.e. <parentref/>) then the portal is bound to the default context and if a specific parent is specified then the it is bound to that context. This is also consistent with how things have worked historically.

I've done some basic testing on letting the portals having different security domains which seams to work fine but needs further analysis, especially how it affects the cms.

Note that the ObjectNodes still form a tree, with the default context as root and the other contextes as children to it.

> Jboss Portal to support virtual hosts
> -------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBPORTAL-1004
>                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPORTAL-1004
>             Project: JBoss Portal
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>            Reporter: Sverker Abrahamsson
>         Attachments: jboss-portal-2.4-2.patch, jboss-portal-2.4.patch, new.files.zip
>
>          Time Spent: 1 week
>  Remaining Estimate: 0 minutes
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> JBoss Portal is today unable to support multiple virtual hosts, i.e. it's not possible to create a portal bound to the address www.foo.com and one that is bound to www.bar.com.
> This is a major problem for real world usage of JBoss Portal

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