justanotheradress wrote:

justanotheradress wrote:

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Hi guys

I wrote a little howto for my installation. Some things I was not able to cover (mod_proxy) or I just didn't do it so far (importing initial database).

Guys,

I have a little problem. I've got finally the whole "ProxyPass" running, well, almost.

Here is my Apache part:

*************************************** NameVirtualHost 88.198.238.101:80 <VirtualHost 88.198.238.101:80> ServerName wahlfreiheit.ch ProxyPass / http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/xwiki/ ProxyPassReverse / http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/xwiki/

Try: ProxyPass /xwiki http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/xwiki/ ProxyPassReverse /xwiki http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/xwiki/

</VirtualHost> ***************************************

The thing is, if you go to http://wahlfreiheit.ch http://wahlfreiheit.ch you will see that something is wrong. It passes the thing to Tomcat but, well, you see the site is mixed up.

If you go to http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/xwiki http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/xwiki you will get the content but again, just not the right way.

Now the weirdest thing: If I enter http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome (note the port), it works just fine...

Funny thing is, if I change my Apache settings and let the "/xwiki/" part from the ProxyPass away, it connects just smoothly to the welcome page of Tomcat.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong??

-- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/

[email protected] wrote:

<http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/xwiki/>

Try:

ProxyPass /xwiki http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/xwiki/ ProxyPassReverse /xwiki http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/xwiki/

When I'm doing that, the page works fine with http://wahlfreiheit.ch/xwiki/ but not with http://wahlfreiheit.ch/. I do want to show the xwiki on root ("/").

I don't understand that behavior...

To options: 1. Use: ProxyPass / http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/ ProxyPassReverse / http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/ and move XWiki from tomcat/webapps/xwiki to tomcat/webapps/ROOT This means that you won't have the Tomcat manager app, but you will also remove /xwiki/ from the path. 2. Add a redirect from http://wahlfreiheit.ch/ to http://wahlfreiheit.ch/xwiki/ -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/

[email protected] wrote:

To options:

1. Use:

ProxyPass / http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/ ProxyPassReverse / http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/

and move XWiki from tomcat/webapps/xwiki to tomcat/webapps/ROOT This means that you won't have the Tomcat manager app, but you will also remove /xwiki/ from the path.

2. Add a redirect from http://wahlfreiheit.ch/ to http://wahlfreiheit.ch/xwiki/

-- Sergiu Dumitriu <http://purl.org/net/sergiu/>

Thanks for trying to help me, but those to proposals are not solving the problem IMHO.

1. I don't want to move XWIKI from tomcat/webapps/xwiki to tomcat/ because then I couldn't use anything else with Tomcat

It does not mean that you will not be able to put anything else. You can have: tomcat/webapps/ROOT/ -> XWiki tomcat/webapps/myapp/ -> another application tomcat/webapps/intra/ -> another XWiki instance used internally tomcat/webapps/manager/ -> Tomcat manager application What you lose is the Tomcat Welcome page, which I never found useful. You will be able to use the manager app, since it is in another directory.

2. A redirect does somehow not work

What did you try? There is a mod_redirect component, AFAIK.

Even if I put the working link (http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome/) into the "ProxyPass" argument it does not work. The ProxyPass is actually working but somehow not. Do I may have to configure something in Tomcat, too? But then again, why is http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome/ working when addressed directly but not with ProxyPass...?

Because the way it works is like this: - A = the url pattern on the left, like http://wahlfreiheit.ch - B = the url pattern on the right, like http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/xwiki - see some URL, U - if U starts with A, then compose U' as B + (U - A), so for http://wahlfreiheit.ch/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome/ this becomes http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/xwiki/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome/ If you map /xwiki to http://wahlfreiheit.ch:8082/xwiki/ then it works fine once the URL path starts with /xwiki/, but then http://wahlfreiheit.ch is not passed to tomcat. This is why I said that you must put a redirect in there.

All I want is if I enter http://wahlreiheit.ch in my browser it should go to http://wahlreiheit:8082/xwiki/ and show the xwiki installation...I don't get it.. :-(

-- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:

Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:

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[email protected] wrote:

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2. A redirect does somehow not work

What did you try? There is a mod_redirect component, AFAIK.

Put this inside the VirtualHost definitions:

RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http://wahlfreiheit.ch/xwiki/

-- Sergiu Dumitriu

Ok, I was veeeery close to run amok. I don't know how resp. why it works now (with your suggestions) but it does. I will spend later some to figure out why...right now I'm done with my server (spent the whole day on this). THANK YOU VERY MUCH SERGIU!!!!