New subject: [xwiki-users] Problem with mod_proxy

23 Jan 2008

Ricardo Rodríguez wrote:
...

 Forget about it at the moment. If you have a running Tomcat instance it 
 will probably be accessible at http://localhost:8080. The number after : 
 is the port number at witch the standalone Tomcat http server is running.
 > Further I don't know where to put
> xwiki exactly...I have some concerns about security...
>       
 As you are running Tomcat as a servlet container, xwiki must be copied 
 to your /webapps folder. If you have installed Tomcat by yourself, you 
 must know where its folder is. It could be under /usr/share, or under 
 /Library/Tomcat,... I've no Debian distribution running here. Sorry.

So far I did the following steps:

1. Installed JAVA JDK 5 
[apt-get install sun-java5-jdk]
[JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx512M"]
[export JAVA_HOME]
[export JAVA_OPTS]

2. Installed Tomcat5.5 
[apt-get install tomcat5.5 tomcat5.5-admin tomcat5.5-webapps]

3. Disabled Tomcat security 
[vi /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5] TOMCAT5_SECURITY=no

4. Created the xwiki database
[mysql -u root -e "create database xwiki"] 
[mysql -u root -e "grant all privileges on xwiki.* to xwiki(a)127.0.0.1
identified by 'xwiki'"]

5. Changed hibernate.cfg.xml to
<property
name="connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost/xwiki</property>
<property name="connection.username">xwiki</property>
<property name="connection.password">xwiki</property>
<property
name="connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
<property
name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>

6. Changed /var/lib/tomcat5.5/conf/tomcat-users.xml to
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tomcat-users>
<role rolename="admin"/>
<role rolename="manager"/>
<role rolename="tomcat"/>
<user username="tomcat"
password=”tomcatpassword”
roles="tomcat,admin,manager"/>
</tomcat-users>

7. Made a new entry in apache2/sites-enabled
<VirtualHost MyServerIP:80>
ServerName MyServerIP:80

ProxyRequests On
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyVia full

<Proxy *>
 Order deny,allow
 Allow from all
</Proxy>

ProxyPass /xwiki http://localhost:8082/xwiki
ProxyPassReverse /xwiki http://localhost:8082/xwiki
<Location /xwiki>
 Order allow,deny
 Allow from all
</Location>
</VirtualHost>

8. Changed the server.xml setting in Tomcat (uncomment the part below)
    <!-- Define a Proxied HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8082 -->
    <!-- See proxy documentation for more information about using this. -->
    <Connector port="8082" 
               maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25"
maxSpareThreads="75"
               enableLookups="false"
               acceptCount="100" debug="0"
connectionTimeout="20000"
               proxyPort="80" disableUploadTimeout="true" />

I guess I'm almost there. I can access Tomcat with MyServerIP:8180, but I
can't get it to work with Apache respectively MyServerIP/xwiki. Everytime I
call MyServerIP/xwiki I get an "Forbidden" message. I really don't know
what
to do now. Any advice would be very appreciated (I tried Google for a long
time but I guess I'm just to dumb for it).

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