[IDIS Technical Secretariat] Ricardo Rodríguez <mailto:ricardo.rodriguez@idisantiago.es> 10 décembre 2015 11:36 Hi! I'm moving an old XWiki installation (XWiki Enterprise 2.4.30451) to a new box. It currently runs as root in a CentOS/Tomcat/MySQL box serving pages at port 80. The destination is a Ubuntu/Apache Web Server/Tomcat MySQL where an Apache virtual host will serve all controller and virtual wikis. A different application is already running as root in the destination. I do need to remove the application part of the URL from the pages served by the new location. This is mainly due to lots of hardcoded URLs I''m not able to get rid of them now. This simple virtual host configuration works fine, but I'm not able to understand how could I remove the "atriumkm", the application, part of the URL... <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin ricardo.rodriguez(a)idisantiago.es ServerName isabel.idisantiago.es RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http://isabel.idisantiago.es/atriumkm/ ProxyPass /atriumkm http://localhost:8080/atriumkm ProxyPassReverse /atriumkm http://localhost:8080/atriumkm DocumentRoot /var/www/html # Logging ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/isabel.idisantiago.es-error_log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/isabel.idisantiago.es-access_log common </VirtualHost> I've found this thread that it seems to me deals with a similar issue... http://markmail.org/thread/u5hu7kw6rr2fcacx ... but I'm not able to understand how to get it working. Please, must I be able to do that by modifying the VirtualHost configuration? Must I modify web.xml? Something related with xwiki.cfg parameters? There are a lot of information playing around and concepts I don't understand well. Any help will be extremely welcome! Cheers! Ricardo _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/atriumkm/ It avoid the loop, but it fails to generate correct URLs: it generates URLs that work fine if accessed directly using Tomcat, but Apache Web Server fails. For example, accessing http://isabel.idisantiago.es, the URL generated...

http://isabel.idisantiago.es/atriumkm/bin/Main/HomeMV2 failed to serve the page correctly served when accessing Tomcat at 8080... http://isabel.idisantiago.es:8080/atriumkm/bin/Main/HomeMV2 It's the tomcat doing the redirect right now (use firebug, go to net, It seems to me that this option only works for the main page: in fact, in our installation, it includes a redirection... ***** {{velocity}} $response.sendRedirect($xwiki.getURL('Main.HomeMV2')) {{/velocity}} ***** The URL generated by xwiki.getURL includes the "application part" and failed to be served. An image from Firebug... http://goo.gl/4D93fm I'm afraid that I'm not able to follow all your reasoning... Why do you say "it's the tomcat doing the redirect right now"? I would like to rephrase my initial question. Perhaps this is clearer... 1) It is possible to remove the "application part" of an XWiki URL when the application is not deployed at ROOT in Tomcat with Apache Web Server as front-end? 2) If yes, does the set-up be done in the Apache Web Server side, Tomcat side, XWiki side, or any combination of these parts? I'm far from being able to digest the complexity of this landscape... I'm afraid! Any insight will be extremely welcome! Thanks! _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users Paul Libbrecht <mailto:paul@hoplahup.net> 11 décembre 2015 12:26 Can you try: ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/atriumkm/ ? It's the tomcat doing the redirect right now (use firebug, go to net, activate persist, then show the headers: Apache-Coyote/1.1) so maybe that helps things. You might want to keep ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/atriumkm/ (this cares for redirects emitted by tomcat) But I am still fearing you'll get some bad links Paul _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users [IDIS Technical Secretariat] Ricardo Rodríguez <mailto:ricardo.rodriguez@idisantiago.es> 11 décembre 2015 12:11 Thanks Paul! Please, read below... On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:49 AM Paul Libbrecht &lt;paul(a)hoplahup.net&gt; wrote: Nope! I can move XWiki to ROOT in Tomcat by simply renaming the application folder! But I've been asked to not to do that by respecting the current application running as ROOT in the server where I'm deploying XWiki. Besides, I would like to run several XWiki instances in the same box. In fact, I'm already doing that, calling each application by using the "application part of the URL". Far simple, for example... http://isabel.idisantiago.es:8080/xwiki http://isabel.idisantiago.es:8080/atriumkm I would like to set up a vhost for each instance that avoid the "application part in the URL. I think I've already tried this. As following... ***** <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin ricardo.rodriguez(a)idisantiago.es ServerName isabel.idisantiago.es # RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http://isabel.idisantiago.es/atriumkm/ ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/atriumkm ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/atriumkm # ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080 # ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080 DocumentRoot /var/www/html # Logging ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/isabel.idisantiago.es-error_log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/isabel.idisantiago.es-access_log common </VirtualHost> ***** And I get this error... ***** Too many redirects occurred trying to open "isabel.idisantiago.es//". ***** This is the current configuration. You can see that error accessing... http://isabel.idisantiago.es It is clear that my understanding about how URLs are constructed is truly poor! Any help will be welcome! Thanks!!! _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users Paul Libbrecht <mailto:paul@hoplahup.net> 10 décembre 2015 11:49 Ricardo, are you unable to move the webapp to root? The shortURLs experience thus far has been based on that. For your vhost, you "just" need to change: ProxyPass /atriumkm http://localhost:8080/atriumkm to ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/atriumkm but there will be links left produced by the web-app that will contain /atriumkm, I think. Paul _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users [IDIS Technical Secretariat] Ricardo Rodríguez <mailto:ricardo.rodriguez@idisantiago.es> 10 décembre 2015 11:36 Hi! I'm moving an old XWiki installation (XWiki Enterprise 2.4.30451) to a new box. It currently runs as root in a CentOS/Tomcat/MySQL box serving pages at port 80. The destination is a Ubuntu/Apache Web Server/Tomcat MySQL where an Apache virtual host will serve all controller and virtual wikis. A different application is already running as root in the destination. I do need to remove the application part of the URL from the pages served by the new location. This is mainly due to lots of hardcoded URLs I''m not able to get rid of them now. This simple virtual host configuration works fine, but I'm not able to understand how could I remove the "atriumkm", the application, part of the URL... <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin ricardo.rodriguez(a)idisantiago.es ServerName isabel.idisantiago.es RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http://isabel.idisantiago.es/atriumkm/ ProxyPass /atriumkm http://localhost:8080/atriumkm ProxyPassReverse /atriumkm http://localhost:8080/atriumkm DocumentRoot /var/www/html # Logging ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/isabel.idisantiago.es-error_log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/isabel.idisantiago.es-access_log common </VirtualHost> I've found this thread that it seems to me deals with a similar issue... http://markmail.org/thread/u5hu7kw6rr2fcacx ... but I'm not able to understand how to get it working. Please, must I be able to do that by modifying the VirtualHost configuration? Must I modify web.xml? Something related with xwiki.cfg parameters? There are a lot of information playing around and concepts I don't understand well. Any help will be extremely welcome! Cheers! Ricardo _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

[IDIS Technical Secretariat] Ricardo Rodríguez <mailto:ricardo.rodriguez@idisantiago.es> 15 décembre 2015 12:33 Sorry for being late! I've had some hard time trying to understand the whole thing... and I failed to do that! Please, read below... On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 3:23 PM Paul Libbrecht &lt;paul(a)hoplahup.net&gt; wrote: This is the first time I truly face the complex world of client-server conversation to serve webpages! And, of course, I found a lot of nice work done in XWiki! prior to go ahead, I would like to be sure I'm following the correct XWiki pages dealing with this issue. Here a summary... http://portal.idisantiago.es/xwiki/bin/view/XWikiDevelopment/URL/ Please, am I missing anything? I know that XWiki pages are a collaborative effort and that any of us can contribute to improve them. I'm just trying to establish a solid starting point before going ahead! Thanks for any insight! Ricardo _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users Paul Libbrecht <mailto:paul@hoplahup.net> 11 décembre 2015 15:23 This is getting more hairy, First, I think that all redirects sent using http-status will be covered by proxyPassReverse. Your next step is to fix any URL produced within the XWiki page. I thought proxyHost would help fixing that (that's part of server.xml, see https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/http.html#Proxy_Support) but I think XWiki doesn't use much of getServerName. Might still be useful for mails or such (there, you need the host-name). For any request to /atriumkm/ you could add another proxy rule but this makes duplicates which is inelegant (the resource page would have two accessible URLs). I think that xwiki.webapppath= (not commented out, this will make the web-app be considered to be "/") in xwiki.cfg might be your friend. It's part of the shortURLs strand (which would be your next step?). Paul _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users [IDIS Technical Secretariat] Ricardo Rodríguez <mailto:ricardo.rodriguez@idisantiago.es> 11 décembre 2015 13:16 Thanks! Please, read below! On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 12:26 PM Paul Libbrecht &lt;paul(a)hoplahup.net&gt; wrote: It avoid the loop, but it fails to generate correct URLs: it generates URLs that work fine if accessed directly using Tomcat, but Apache Web Server fails. For example, accessing http://isabel.idisantiago.es, the URL generated... http://isabel.idisantiago.es/atriumkm/bin/Main/HomeMV2 failed to serve the page correctly served when accessing Tomcat at 8080... http://isabel.idisantiago.es:8080/atriumkm/bin/Main/HomeMV2 It's the tomcat doing the redirect right now (use firebug, go to net, It seems to me that this option only works for the main page: in fact, in our installation, it includes a redirection... ***** {{velocity}} $response.sendRedirect($xwiki.getURL('Main.HomeMV2')) {{/velocity}} ***** The URL generated by xwiki.getURL includes the "application part" and failed to be served. An image from Firebug... http://goo.gl/4D93fm I'm afraid that I'm not able to follow all your reasoning... Why do you say "it's the tomcat doing the redirect right now"? I would like to rephrase my initial question. Perhaps this is clearer... 1) It is possible to remove the "application part" of an XWiki URL when the application is not deployed at ROOT in Tomcat with Apache Web Server as front-end? 2) If yes, does the set-up be done in the Apache Web Server side, Tomcat side, XWiki side, or any combination of these parts? I'm far from being able to digest the complexity of this landscape... I'm afraid! Any insight will be extremely welcome! Thanks! _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users Paul Libbrecht <mailto:paul@hoplahup.net> 11 décembre 2015 12:26 Can you try: ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/atriumkm/ ? It's the tomcat doing the redirect right now (use firebug, go to net, activate persist, then show the headers: Apache-Coyote/1.1) so maybe that helps things. You might want to keep ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/atriumkm/ (this cares for redirects emitted by tomcat) But I am still fearing you'll get some bad links Paul _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users [IDIS Technical Secretariat] Ricardo Rodríguez <mailto:ricardo.rodriguez@idisantiago.es> 11 décembre 2015 12:11 Thanks Paul! Please, read below... On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:49 AM Paul Libbrecht &lt;paul(a)hoplahup.net&gt; wrote: Nope! I can move XWiki to ROOT in Tomcat by simply renaming the application folder! But I've been asked to not to do that by respecting the current application running as ROOT in the server where I'm deploying XWiki. Besides, I would like to run several XWiki instances in the same box. In fact, I'm already doing that, calling each application by using the "application part of the URL". Far simple, for example... http://isabel.idisantiago.es:8080/xwiki http://isabel.idisantiago.es:8080/atriumkm I would like to set up a vhost for each instance that avoid the "application part in the URL. I think I've already tried this. As following... ***** <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin ricardo.rodriguez(a)idisantiago.es ServerName isabel.idisantiago.es # RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http://isabel.idisantiago.es/atriumkm/ ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/atriumkm ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/atriumkm # ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080 # ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080 DocumentRoot /var/www/html # Logging ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/isabel.idisantiago.es-error_log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/isabel.idisantiago.es-access_log common </VirtualHost> ***** And I get this error... ***** Too many redirects occurred trying to open "isabel.idisantiago.es//". ***** This is the current configuration. You can see that error accessing... http://isabel.idisantiago.es It is clear that my understanding about how URLs are constructed is truly poor! Any help will be welcome! Thanks!!! _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users