Re: [xwiki-users] Watchlist email links use localhost instead of server hostname

On 23 Sep 2016, at 21:00, Eduard Moraru <enygma2002(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi, Sounds to me like http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-13435

Thanks, Eduard On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 8:02 PM, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Paul Libbrecht <paul(a)hoplahup.net> wrote: >> And what if there was no request since the start but the watch list must > fire? > > This is not possible since you need a request for the watchlist to be > initialized along with XWiki. > >> To me relying on a first request is really dangerous, also there are > cases where ProxyPreserveHost is not accessible (I had the case of having > just mod_rewrite and no mod_proxy‎). >> ‎ >> A hard solution is to install a URL factory that is absolute (i've > published one here, it has too many things but has worked for me), another > is to change de tomcat config if available. >> Paul‎ >> >> >> -- fat fingered on my z10 -- >> Message d'origine >> De: Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar >> Envoyé: Freitag, 23. September 2016 16:15 >> À: XWiki Users >> Répondre à: XWiki Users >> Objet: Re: [xwiki-users] Watchlist email links use localhost instead of > server hostname >> >> >> If I remember correctly, XWiki uses the first incoming request to store > the information by which hostname it is called, and uses this information > in the background thread that sends the watchlist mails. >> >> a) If you are sure that everyone accesses your wiki through the actual > host name, you should be able to fix the problem by restarting the wiki >> b) If that does not help: check if you have a proxy in front of XWiki; > maybe that proxy does not pass through the "host" header from the browser >> (e.g apache httpd needs a "ProxyPreserveHost On" in its configuration to > do so.) >> c) Finally if you want to enfore the usage of a host name, and you can > add something like >> >> wget --retry-connrefused --tries=100 --header 'Host: jabba.jabba.hey' > http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ >> >> to your start script to make sure XWiki uses a certain domain for the > watchlist mails >> >> HTH, >> Clemens >> >> On 09/22/2016 09:41 AM, Hofstätter Mario wrote: >>> The watchlist mail notifications we are receiving from our xwiki server > have hyperlinks to the corresponding pages, but the link starts with " > http://localhost/" as opposed to the actual server hostname. >>> How may we fix this? >>> >>> Thank you >>> Mario