Hello I am a newbie as far as jboss server, portals and web applications are concerned. I need some help making a jboss portal accessible from the internet with my own domain (for example www.myTestDomain.de).
Registration and installation: -> I registered a dynamic host at dyndns.com and a domain at united-domains.de. -> I installed jboss Server 4.0.3SP1 (default port 8080), mySql 4.1 and the jboss portal 2.2 (binary). With "http://localhost:8080"; i can see the startpage of the jboss app-server. With "http://localhost:8080/portal"; i can see the startpage of the JBoss portal. Steps, i tried to make the portal accessible with www.myTestDomain.de: 1) I changed the port for the JBoss app server from 8080 to 80 in the server.xml file in "jboss-home"\server\default\deploy\jbossweb-tomcat55.sar as described in the "Jboss Portal User guide" in chapter 3 (customizing your installation). Now i can see the app-server with "http://localhost"; or "www.myTestDomain.de" and the Portal startpage with "http://localhost/portal"; or with "www.myTestDomain.de/portal". (I had a similar effect, when i changed the settings in my router instead: Redirecting incoming requests from port 80 to port 8080). Access from the internet worked, but the user had still to type in "www.myTestDomain.de/portal" to get access to the portal-page. 2) So i tried to change the context path as described in the portal user guide. I downloaded the jboss portal sources instead of the binaries for this task. I changed the following entry in the local.properties file in the build directory: # Context root for the portal main servlet portal.web.context-root=/portal --> portal.web.context-root=/somethingother After redeploying it with "build -d" - as described in another thread - and restarting the server, there was no effect on the context path. It was still "www.myTestDomain.de/portal". I think, i have to learn more about deploying with ant and so on to understand this first. 3) Another idea of me was to use a reverse proxy (did i mention, that i never installed a webserver before): I changed the port of the JBoss App-Server back to its default 8080 again. Then i installed apache 2.0 on windows XP and could see the apache startpage with "http://localhost"; (standard port 80) or with "www.myTestDomain.de". I added the following lines to the apache configuration file "httpd" in the virtual hosts section: NameVirtualHost * <VirtualHost *> ServerName www.myTestDomain.de ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/portal ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/portal Further i removed the "#" from the lines: LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so to activate the proxy-modules. But i didn't work as i hoped: when i typed "www.myTestDomain.de" into the browser i got a page, that seemed to be the "JBoss Portal start page" without pictures (only text was visible) and without any working links. 4) This last approach worked: I registered a second domain at united-domains and redirected it at their homepage to "www.myTestDomain.de/portal". Thus i can see my portal. Of couse i am still interested in the correct, easy and secure !!! way to do this with one domain. I hope, i gave some usefull hints for other newbies. greetings Christian View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3929096#3929096 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3929096 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user
