[xwiki-users] must xwiki really be aware of its context?

[Ricardo Rodríguez - Your XEN ICT Team]

Is it possible to use completely different domains with virtual wikis? I mean, virtual wikis with answer to host names that are not subdomained to the controller.
 
For instance mydomain.com and yourdomain.net.
 
Thanks!

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Ricardo Rodríguez
Your XEN ICT Team

>>> Esbach, Brandon<Esbachb at tycoelectronics.com> 1/6/2007 11:58 >>>

I had thought the mappings were fixed in 1.0?

If you use multiple instances, bear in mind your memory usage will be
considerably higher than a single instance.  In our case, we switched
over to virtual when XWiki 1.0b1 was released; before that we had
several instances running.

As to workarounds, this depends on the reason you've got multiple xwiki
instances - if it's just to separate projects; you could achieve the
same by making careful use of usergroups on a single xwiki instance (if
you use panels, you check group membership before rendering the panel
then it won't show for non-members).

Naturally if one instance is to run locally and the other to run
publicly, then it's easier - put the signature on the public one, and
firewall the private one.

-----Original Message-----
From: hanspeter.klapf at gmx.at [mailto:hanspeter.klapf at gmx.at] 
Sent: 01 June 2007 10:28
To: xwiki-users at objectweb.org 
Subject: [xwiki-users] must xwiki really be aware of its context?


In the xwiki-documentation I read about virtual wikis and their
installation-procedure. While this is a great idea for a big number of
wikis, it has some disadvantages for a small number of instances:

- I need a wildcard-certificate (quite expensive) or X certificates for
X wikis
- Updates always take affect to each instances
- An additional DNS-entry must be made for each instance (usually not
the expertise of the wiki-administrator)

For me it would be gread to use different context-names:
wiki.mycompany.com/projectx
wiki.mycompany.com/projecty

This way, only one (no wildcard-) certificate is needed and a few
instances would work on the same hardware. Unfortunately, some
links/redirects are absolute (/xwiki/..) and so this is not possible.

Will this feature be available in future? Are there any workarounds
available?

Thanks,
  Hanspeter