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[Sergiu Dumitriu]

On 3/18/07, Vincent Massol <vincent at massol.net> wrote:
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> On Mar 18, 2007, at 9:35 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
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> On 3/18/07, Vincent Massol <vincent at massol.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mar 17, 2007, at 3:33 AM, erockx wrote:
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> > >
> > > I actually do want the xwiki app to be deployed to the root context.
> > > Unfortunately, I don't have the ability through my hosting serviece
> > > to setup
> > > mod_redirect.  Is there some way I can set this up?
> > >
> > > I currently have 1.0-beta-5 installed, but I'd be willing to go to the
> > > repository to get another version if necessary to make this happen.
> >
> > Currently xwiki cannot be deployed to the root context. You have to
> > deploy it to the "xwiki" context.
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>
> I deployed several XWiki instances in other contexts than xwiki, including
> one as ROOT.
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>
> What about http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-788?
>

It is still valid, but only advanced features are affected. A simple wiki
works fine in any context, since the hardcoded /xwiki/ has been removed from
critical files. Still, things like treeview or s5 don't work yet.

So are you're saying that it works with the following kind of paths?
> http://server/customcontext/xwiki/bin/view/Main/
>

No, but http://server.com/customcontext/bin/view/Main/ or
http://server.com/bin/view/Main yes. Check out
http://www.infoiasi.ro/bin/view/Main/ or
http://www.uaic.ro/uaic/bin/view/Main/

With a little tuning, you can make it work.
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>
> Do you know what is involved? That would be interesting as a comment on
> XWIKI-788
>

In the trunk, javascript files are being parsed, so now we can search for
all 'xwiki/' strings in the template and skins directories and replace it
with $(I forgot what). The same thing should be done for the database
documents.

> The only major thing that needs to be changed is the display-name property
> in WEB-INF/web.xml to an empty value, like:
> <display-name></display-name>
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>
> This I don't understand :) Why would that affect deployment?
>

I'm not sure why, but without this it does not work (404).

If you are using the default database from the beta5, most things should be
> working already. Not all the hardcoded references to the 'xwiki' webapp have
> been checked though, so there might be cases where things don't work, but
> this is limited to some pages or API calls that usually are not used (at
> least I never needed them).
>
> That said I noticed we had a META-INF/context.xml file with a context
> > of "/". I'll find out why. In the meantime, try to remove that file
> > if you're deploying on Tomcat (if you're not deploying on Tomcat this
> > file won't be used).
>
>
> It seems to work fine with it, anyway.
>
>
> Probably better to remove it though. Were you deploying to Tomcat? Ah you
> might have been using a newer version of Tomcat (5.x) which doesn't allow
> deploying to the context root in context.xml and thus the value is
> ignore... ;-)
>
> Better remove it in any case as I don't understand the purpose it serves.
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>
Sergiu

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