See also issue #20313 [1] which has an open PR [2].

Cheers,
Walden

[1] http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/20313
[2] https://github.com/Katello/bastion/pull/206

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Gerrit,
>
> You're right that a lot assumes a static location. Katello has much more
> assumptions in this area than vanilla Foreman and while there is an effort
> to at least be able to split services onto different hosts where we might
> tackle some assumptions in the process there is a long way to go.
>
> For now I'd advise you to use a separate vhost and use DNS, separate IP
> and/or port for your own application because it sounds like that's more
> relocatable.
>
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 05:07:13AM -0700, [email protected]
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Ewoud,
>>
>> thanks for your informative and quick answer. As it looks to me that the
>> required changes are touching quite a lot of sensitive points (from which
>> many are not yet identified?), I think it's better for me not to continue
>> with my undertaking and not to touch the sources.
>>
>> For now, I will the just redirect ^/$ with httpd to point to an alias of
>> where my own service sits. This way, only the dashboard of Foreman cannot
>> be reached anymore, but the rest of Foreman and Katello is still intact
>> and
>> seems to work for everything I need.
>>
>> I also already tried running Foreman in production on non-default ports,
>> but it seems like this is even causing more issues as there seem to be
>> some
>> hard coded ports for the communication with Pulp in the sources (like
>> https://github.com/Katello/katello/blob/6aca54157e579d6312a9
>> e4a49609df0ffa1685b1/app/services/katello/proxy_status/pulp.rb#L45).
>>
>> If you have any other ideas I could try out, I would be very grateful if
>> you share them with me.
>>
>> Many thanks and regards,
>>
>> --Gerrit
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 12:29:05 PM UTC+2, Ewoud Kohl van
>> Wijngaarden wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 02:56:06AM -0700, [email protected]
>>> <javascript:> wrote:
>>> >I am having a setup where I use Foreman as a complete backend service.
>>> >Another service works on the document root of the HTTPD server. In order
>>> to
>>> >have all pages of Foreman still reachable, I tried altering the base URL
>>> of
>>> >Foreman by changing the value for the foreman_url in the
>>> foreman-installer.
>>> >This is working great so far, all pages of Foreman now changed to
>>> >https://<hostname>/foreman, all API calls are working fine.
>>> >
>>> >However, when I try to visit a Katello page like content views or
>>> products,
>>> >the page cannot load and it ends up in an endless loop. I can provide
>>> more
>>> >detailed logging output if required, but as far as I can see, there is
>>> not
>>> >much information that can be found in the logs.
>>> >
>>> >Did anyone ever try changing the base URL and ran into this issue? Is
>>> there
>>> >a possibility to configure Katello such that the pages work with an
>>> altered
>>> >base? Is there maybe a setting in the foreman-installer that I need to
>>> >change to make it work?
>>> >
>>> >Thanks for reading and all the best,
>>>
>>> https://github.com/Katello/puppet-katello/pull/211 was merged just last
>>> week so I'm guessing few people do. There may be other dragons hiding
>>> because deployment_url is considered relative in post_sync_url now but
>>> in candlepin it might have been considered absolute so I dug in deeper
>>> (as I should have when I merged 211) and it looks like the whole
>>> deployment_url is unused in puppet-candlepin and we should just remove
>>> that part. https://github.com/Katello/puppet-candlepin/pull/82 together
>>> with https://github.com/Katello/puppet-katello/pull/214 should take care
>>> of that.
>>>
>>> Looking through the source then I see some examples that should work but
>>> many that do not. What should work is using the foreman_url helper like
>>>
>>> https://github.com/Katello/katello/blob/b02526bea7026560b2d6
>>> d66fac9038cfeb74bab9/app/assets/javascripts/katello/
>>> hosts/activation_key_edit.js#L22
>>>
>>> What doesn't work is plain URLs like
>>>
>>> https://github.com/Katello/katello/blob/b02526bea7026560b2d6
>>> d66fac9038cfeb74bab9/app/assets/javascripts/katello/
>>> hosts/host_and_hostgroup_edit.js#L28
>>>
>>> In short: I think you're entering uncharted/unsupported territory.
>>>
>>>
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