in response to the redirect question, you need the following line in
default-web-site.xml
<frontend host="myhost" port="80" />
this will tell redirects to use the given host and port
-----Original Message-----
From: David Morton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 1:31 PM
To: Orion-Interest
Subject: Re: ipchains and Orion
I recommend using IPTABLES.....THIS IS HOW I DO IT....works great...i got
ipchains working, but didn't log remoteAddr.......probably is a workaround
out
there, but I recommend iptables (on linux)
David
Darren Gibbons wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Apologies if this is the second time for this email -- I sent it first
while
> the listserv was down.
>
> We're testing Orion running under Linux, and we'd prefer not to run it as
> root for obvious reasons.
>
> I've currently got it running as user 'orion' on port 8000, and am
> redirecting requests to port 80 via ipchains.
>
> Here is the ipchains command I used to handle the redirect:
>
> ipchains -I input 1 -d <ip_address> 80 -p tcp -j REDIRECT 8000
>
> This is working, but I have two questions:
>
> 1) In order to get Orion to work, I had to change the <web-site> host to
> "[ALL]" rather than just the specific IP address. I would prefer not to
use
> "[ALL]" as it could conflict with the Apache server I also have running on
> the box. Is there another way to set up this rule? Why can't I just set
> the host to the same IP address I used in the ipchains command above?
>
> 2) If I access the application on port 80, it works fine, until I call
> response.sendRedirect("somefile.jsp"). The redirect will automatically
> prepend the URL with the server address, directing the user to port 8000.
> Is there any way I can force the app to always redirect to port 80?
>
> Thanks for any advice,
>
> Darren.
>
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