Dear Community,

We have multiple GPFS clusters within our internal networks.  We want to expose 
more than one GPFS GUI interface, from behind a shared web proxy / firewall 
setup, which has SAML2 integration with our organization's IDP.  (The SAML2 is 
not part of the question, it's just a rationale for doing it this way.)  

Essentially, we're trying to do something like https://<fqdn>/gpfs/gui1 and 
https://<fqdn>/gpfs/gui2

The websphere config in the GPFS GUI packages basically assume a document root 
of "/".  This poses additional problems when it forms relative URLs...for 
example, immediately after login, it tries to redirect from "/" to "/gui".  
Through our web proxy, this ends up being https://<fqdn>/gui which is a 404.

While problems might be addressable with some complex mod_rewrite in our web 
proxy, I've been looking for a more straightforward solution. In 
/opt/ibm/wlp/usr/servers/gpfsgui/server.xml, it's possible to change the 
document root in line 34:

<webApplication id="GSS_GUI" location="ROOT.war" name="/" />

Changing the document root would allow me to mod_proxy from 
https://<fqdn>/gpfs/gui1 to https://<internal_rfc1918>/gpfs/gui1, and in theory 
that makes it easy to support many GPFS GUIs, and should fix the relative URL / 
redirect issue.

However, while it seems like this ought to simplify matters, in fact it just 
breaks other parts of the GPFS GUI, because it calls URLs that aren't part of 
"ROOT.war" and those also assume a document root of "/".

So, my basic question for the community is this:  Has anyone out there 
successfully mucked with the GPFS GUI document root?  Or am I just barking up 
the wrong tree?

Thanks in advance,

Jonathan


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Jonathan Mills / [email protected]
NASA GSFC / NCCS HPC (606.2)
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