On 28 Mar 2012, at 15:48, Jasha Joachimsthal wrote:
> On 28 March 2012 11:13, Scott Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 28 Mar 2012, at 10:06, Jasha Joachimsthal wrote:
>>
>>> On 28 March 2012 11:00, Scott Wilson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 28 Mar 2012, at 09:49, Jasha Joachimsthal wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I wanted to deploy Apache Rave on my server for a demo. In [1] we have
>>>>> documented how the portal makes calls to Shindig on a different
>> location
>>>>> than localhost:8080 and how to configure Shindig to let the gadgets
>> make
>>>>> calls to its external host. For the W3C widgets we bundle a war of the
>>>>> Wookie server that is configured for localhost:8080.
>>>>> For Wookie I changed the settings
>>>>> in WEB-INF/classes/widgetserver.properties of the exploded war (ugh) to
>>>>> make the W3C widgets render. Is there a cleaner way to do this by
>> adding
>>>> a
>>>>> properties file to the classpath or should be put some effort in making
>>>> our
>>>>> own Wookie war file instead of bundling the default war file?
>>>>
>>>> Wookie will look for a "local.widgetserver.properties" in the servlet
>>>> container's /bin directory and merge this to override the defaults
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks, I'll try that and update the documentation. I managed to let the
>>> widgets render in my portal, but when I retrieve their metadata, the URL
>>> returned for the thumbnail or preview contains localhost:8080. Before
>>> submitting the form for a new widget in the portal widget store I correct
>>> that host name. Is that also a setting in the
>> local.widgetserver.properties
>>> or is that a part of the widget metadata of the default bundled widgets?
>>
>>
>> That should be taken care of when setting the virtual host properties
>> (widget.server.scheme etc).
>>
>> If it isn't you could try deleting the db and re-deploying the WAR with
>> the local.widgetserver.properties in place and see if that fixes it.
>>
>>
> I stopped Tomcat, deleted the exploded war, my work directory and the
> widgetDatabase folder. I added a local.widgetserver.properties file in my
> tomcat/bin directory with the following properties
>
> widget.server.scheme=http
> widget.server.hostname=rave.example.com
> widget.server.port=80
>
> ## local proxy settings - note if no hostname is specified then no proxy
> will be used ##
> widget.proxy.scheme=http
> widget.proxy.hostname=rave.example.com
> widget.proxy.port=80
>
> Then I started Tomcat. The widgets try to contact localhost:8080 instead of
> rave.example.com:80 for the rendering so I don't see wookie widgets. Did I
> forget something?
I don't think so... just to isolate the problem:
- if you make these changes directly to the exploded WAR, it works?
- but if you try just in {tomcat}/bin/local.widgetserver.properties, it doesn't?
>
>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] http://rave.apache.org/documentation/host-configuration.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Jasha Joachimsthal
>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
