[mod_cluster-dev] Excluded contexts

[Paul Ferraro]

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 17:28 +0100, jean-frederic clere wrote:
> Paul Ferraro wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 16:48 +0100, jean-frederic clere wrote:
> >> Paul Ferraro wrote:
> >>> 1.0.0.Beta3 adds a new excludedContexts configuration property that
> >>> defines a comma delimited list of web contexts that should *not*
> >>> auto-register with httpd.  Does anyone have any suggestions/comments
> >>> about which contexts to disable by default?  Currently, this property
> >>> defaults to:
> >>>
> >>> <property name="excludedContexts">ROOT,invoker,jbossws,jmx-console,juddi,web-console</property>
> >>>
> >>> i.e. all contexts deployed by default in the JBoss AS all profile.
> >>>
> >>> As I think about this more, I think we should use a system property for
> >>> this instead - and perhaps enable the ROOT context by default?
> >> Enable ROOT context by default is probably not a good idea. every 
> >> requests will go to JBoss and probably will return 404.
> >>
> > Why would there be any requests for these webapps via httpd at all?
> 
> ROOT corresponds to / so everything will be rooted to JBoss by default. 
> I am not sure that is a good default.
> 
I realize this, *and* I'm saying that this is the prime use case - that
the context most users will want load balanced is the root context.  No
requests for any of the other contexts would ever be made from httpd -
if somebody did, a 404 is entirely appropriate.
I'll keep ROOT excluded until you're thoroughly convinced... ;)

> Cheers
> 
> Jean-Frederic