[xwiki-users] My Howto - Debian 4 (etch) - Tomcat - MySQL

[Sergiu Dumitriu]

justanotheradress at gmail.com wrote:
>     To options:
> 
>     1. Use:
> 
>       ProxyPass / http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/
>       ProxyPassReverse / http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/
> 
>     and move XWiki from tomcat/webapps/xwiki to tomcat/webapps/ROOT
>     This means that you won't have the Tomcat manager app, but you will also
>     remove /xwiki/ from the path.
> 
> 
>     2. Add a redirect from http://wahlfreiheit.ch/ to
>     http://wahlfreiheit.ch/xwiki/
> 
>     --
>     Sergiu Dumitriu <http://purl.org/net/sergiu/>
> 
> 
> Thanks for trying to help me, but those to proposals are not solving the 
> problem IMHO.
> 
> 1. I don't want to move XWIKI from tomcat/webapps/xwiki to tomcat/ 
> because then I couldn't use anything else with Tomcat

It does not mean that you will not be able to put anything else. You can 
have:

tomcat/webapps/ROOT/ -> XWiki
tomcat/webapps/myapp/ -> another application
tomcat/webapps/intra/ -> another XWiki instance used internally
tomcat/webapps/manager/ -> Tomcat manager application

What you lose is the Tomcat Welcome page, which I never found useful. 
You will be able to use the manager app, since it is in another directory.

> 2. A redirect does somehow not work

What did you try? There is a mod_redirect component, AFAIK.

> Even if I put the working link 
> (http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome/) into the 
> "ProxyPass" argument it does not work. The ProxyPass is actually working 
> but somehow not. Do I may have to configure something in Tomcat, too? 
> But then again, why is 
> http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome/ working when 
> addressed directly but not with ProxyPass...?

Because the way it works is like this:

- A = the url pattern on the left, like http://wahlfreiheit.ch
- B = the url pattern on the right, like http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/xwiki
- see some URL, U
- if U starts with A, then compose U' as B + (U - A), so for 
http://wahlfreiheit.ch/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome/ this becomes 
http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/xwiki/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome/

If you map /xwiki to http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/xwiki/ then it works 
fine once the URL path starts with /xwiki/, but then 
http://wahlfreiheit.ch is not passed to tomcat. This is why I said that 
you must put a redirect in there.

> All I want is if I enter http://wahlreiheit.ch in my browser it should 
> go to http://wahlreiheit:8082/xwiki/ and show the xwiki installation...I 
> don't get it..   :-(
> 
-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/