[mod_cluster-dev] Excluded contexts

[Paul Ferraro]

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 12:08 -0500, Paul Ferraro wrote:
> 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... ;)
> 
P.S.
by "excluded", I mean "included in the excludedContexts list"....

> > Cheers
> > 
> > Jean-Frederic
> 
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