Re: [xwiki-users] Apache settings

On 04/18/2011 03:52 PM, lists(a)yhmail.de wrote: 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.

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.