It may be worth putting this into the documentation
-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces(a)xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf
Of Vincent Massol
Sent: 03 July 2008 16:43
To: XWiki Users
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] XEM Configuration
Thanks a lot Jamie for posting back the solution. It's great you did
this and I'm sure it'll help others in the future.
Thanks
-Vincent
On Jul 3, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Jamison Novak wrote:
Please disregard the original message below. After a
day and a half of
banging my head against the wall, I figured out the
problem I was
having with virtual wikis.
Just in case anybody else runs into the problem I was experiencing
with
Apache+Resin+XEM, I'll summarize.
XEM was installed, running, and apparently functioning correctly. I
was able to get to the "master" xwiki instance, create/modfiy/delete
virtual wikis, and do everything you'd expect within that interface.
No matter how I specified the host/domain information for the virtual
wiki, however, I was not able to get to the virtual wiki instance.
DNS was correct, Apache was sending me to the right place, but the
"redirect" file in the XWiki directory would just get displayed as
text and the wiki itself would never come up even if I went directly
to various known-good pages.
It turns out that Resin was actually the culprit. In the config file,
I'd specified the Resin host as this:
<host id="xwiki.domain.dom"
root-directory="/usr/local/www/xwiki"
host-name="xwiki.domain.dom" host-alias="xwiki">
So, even though DNS entries and Apache Virtual Hosts were created for
the *other* virtual wiki instances, Resin only cared about the
xwiki.domain.dom hostname/instance and let everything else stay with
Apache. I made the following change to my configuration (broken out
into separate tags for ease-of-reading) and it's now working
swimmingly:
<host regexp="([^.]+)\.domain\.dom">
<host-name>${host.regexp[1]}.domain.dom</host-name>
<host-alias>${host.regexp[1]}</host-alias>
<root-directory>/usr/local/www/xwiki</root-directory>
Sorry for another long post, but I figured this was worth sending in
case there's another masochist out there running XWiki under
Apache+Resin and having the same problems. (Things get murky when
you're
dealing with resin's ability to handle virtual hosts, apache's ability
to handle virtual hosts, and xwiki's ability to
detect virtual hosts -
all independently functioning and configured).
Cheers,
Jamie
-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces(a)xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] On
Behalf Of Jamison Novak
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 4:39 PM
To: users(a)xwiki.org
Subject: [xwiki-users] XEM Configuration
Hi All,
I'm new to XWiki (and the list) and have a few questions. I'm
specifically needing help with the Virtual Wiki portion of things, but
that will be for a follow-up Email. The first thing I
need to verify
is that I've got the base installation of things essentially correctly
configured.
Our webserver is Apache 2.0 with Java being served up by Resin on the
back end. I've installed XWiki Enterprise Manager 1.2 into its own
directory (/usr/local/www/xwiki) and created a separate Resin instance
for it (listening on port 6807). A portion of the
XWiki Resin config
file looks like this:
<host id="xwiki.domain.dom"
root-directory="/usr/local/www/xwiki/"
host-name="xwiki.domain.dom" host-alias="xwiki">
<web-app id="/"
document-directory="/usr/local/www/xwiki/">
[...]
</web-app>
</host>
The Resin instance starts fine. I created a Virtual Host for it in
Apache as follows:
<VirtualHost MY_IP:80>
ServerName xwiki.domain.dom
ServerAlias xwiki
DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/xwiki/
ResinConfigServer localhost 6807
</VirtualHost>
The main problem I have is that I can't get the wiki to load. If I go
to
http://xwiki/ or
http://xwiki.domain.dom/ (internal server; don't
bother
trying) -- I just get a directory listing of the XWiki files. If I
click on the "redirect" text file in the directory, it will work its
magic and send me to the welcome page for the wiki.
I haven't seen anything mentioned anywhere about that specific
problem, so I'm asking. Is it normal to have to add something like
this to the VirtualHost container:
RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ /redirect
In effect, doing two redirects on the initial root page load? Is there
another way I should be configuring things?
Sorry for the length. I just wanted to give a bit of background before
I asked, since I have a follow-up question or two
regarding running
Virtual Wikis (ugh).
Thanks for listening.
-Jamie
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