Hi! I had the same "problem" with non-debian configuration. I wanted also to set up XWiki as root. As Tomcat is not exactly web server, there are some solutions: 1. The way you described. As far as I understood you have now "wikiless" path - without /xwiki part. I raised this problem some time ago and Sergiu Dumitriu answered me following:
1. Is it crucial for XWiki and/or some XWiki applications to eat shorten URL on Tomcat's level? Will it affect, for example, on virtual wiki mapping for URLs based addresses like http://myfarm.net/xwiki/wiki/wikiname/?
XWiki should work just fine with the shorter URLs. The "xwikiless" information might be very outdated, when it used to be true that some parts of XWiki would fail. I didn't get exact consequences of "very outdated" , thus solved it other way. 2. Set up Glassfish (or any other) - it can manage ROOT fine itself. 3. "Cover" Tomcat with an web server. I found nginx as best solution for me. Finally I set up Tocat + nginx, that makes it very flexible and fast. If you need - write me in private, I'd share a nginx configuration to solve a problem: mydomain.com -> nginx -> localhost:8080/xwiki. So, endusers use only mydomain.com paths. The same is possible with any web-server actually. Kind regards, Dmitry Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:30:03 +0200 от Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>:
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Eugen Colesnicov <[email protected]> wrote:
I found solution for me. Sorry for stupid questions, but it is new expirience
for me.
Answer:
- open folder /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost. In this folder exists 2
files: ROOT.xml & xwiki.xml.
- delete ROOT.xml
- rename xwiki.xml to ROOT.xml
- edit ROOT.xml after renaming, change ..path="/xwiki".. to ..path="/"..
- save ROOT.xml
- restart tomcat
Maybe it will helpful for somebody else.
It would be a nice addition to
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/InstallationViaAPT
;)
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