Re: [xwiki-users] Apache settings

Andreas If your intercepting with anything (httpd,nginx,lighttpd), thus proxying, you should use ajp. Its simply faster..

------ thanks kevin.foote On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Andreas Hahn wrote: -> Am 19.04.2011 15:41, schrieb Sergiu Dumitriu: -> > On 04/19/2011 09:09 AM, Andreas Hahn wrote: -> >> Am 19.04.2011 00:08, schrieb Sergiu Dumitriu: -> >>> On 04/18/2011 03:52 PM, lists(a)yhmail.de wrote: -> >>>> Hey, -> >>>> -> >>>> thanks it works now. At least I do not get any errors at the moment. -> >>>> Could you explain to me what the difference is? (HTTP vs. ajp) When proxying? -> >>> ajp is a direct connection between httpd and tomcat, which basically -> >>> lets Tomcat take care of a request on behalf of httpd. The request -> >>> details are kept in place, including the hostname, the port, whether the -> >>> connection is secure (SSL/https) or not... -> >>> -> >>> HTTP proxying means that httpd clones the initial client request as a -> >>> new http request to the Tomcat server. Thus, unless specifically -> >>> configured to try and pass some details from the initial request, Tomcat -> >>> will just see this as an ordinary request done to "localhost" on port 8080. -> >>> -> >>> ProxyPass, ProxyPassReverse and ProxyPreserveHost try to keep the same -> >>> hostname (www.my-domain.de instead of localhost), but don't keep the -> >>> fact that HTTPS was used. -> >> Thanks for the backgrounder ! -> >> -> >>> The problem with the blog is that unlike most parts of the wiki, -> >>> absolute URLs are used when creating a new category. This means that a -> >>> full URL, trying to match the requested URL, is computed. Now, since -> >>> Tomcat/XWiki doesn't really know the original URL, the generated URL -> >>> will be most likely wrong, pointing to the wrong host and port. -> >> Couldn't that / shouldn't that be changed so that its possible to -> >> reliably operate -> >> XWiki with all of its features behind a httpd ? -> > It does work, if the configuration is correct. -> -> I see. I just checked with my installation that Blog works ok. If I -> understand correctly -> that has to do with the fact that I'm just using simple HTTP proxying -> (and not HTTPS, -> in this case ajp should be used). -> -> -> >> I think a lot of people are doing that (including me). Never tried -> >> blogging though .... -> >> Are other parts of XWiki also affected by this 'wrong' computation of -> >> the url ? -> >> -> > -> -> _______________________________________________ -> users mailing list -> users(a)xwiki.org -> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users -> _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users