Re: [flexcoders] Re: Structuring a collection of Flex apps in a tomcat webapps folder
Dustin, Thanks for verifying this. Its odd that so few people have noticed this. I guess perhaps everyone just uses apache as a front end. But for me setting up apache on linux is just another headache since I am not familiar with it, so I really dont want to introduce any new complexities. So what I am doing now is just manually copying the files out of the folder before I build war files. But this is really annoying. I guess if I switch to ant for building my war's this could be automated. Regards Hank On 11/4/06, Dustin Mercer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, this one is annoying. I don't use the Compile locally option just because of this issue. I have it compile on the server. Definately something that should be filed with Adobe though. I keep meaning to file a wish request for this, I'll make some time to do that today. Dustin Mercer From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com on behalf of hank williams Sent: Sat 11/4/2006 5:44 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Structuring a collection of Flex apps in a tomcat webapps folder Ok, looking at this somemore, I think this is most likely a design bug in flex builder. There is no reason for flex builder to prevent the user from specifying any folder he likes for the build output. For FDS applications, it seems the flex builder is limited to generating compiler output in a folder that is inside the web application folder. While the intentions are good, FDS should certainly not prevent the user from placing the output in root of the web application folder and not in a folder inside the web application folder. in other words flexbuilder will build this webapps mywebappfolder myflexappfolder yada.html yada.swf but flexbuilder will not build this: webapps mywebappfolder yada.html yada.swf which makes it very hard to make an app domain www.appname.com instead of www.appname.com/somefoldername without apache or some other indirection Regards Hank On 11/4/06, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:hank777%40gmail.com wrote: It sounds like you are letting FDS compile for you on the server. I am compiling on the client. To restate, hopefully, more clearly my problem, it is as follows: I want my swf and html output files to be inside: webapps/serlvet-name instead of: webapps/serlvet-name/flex-app-name I am not able to get flexbuilder to do this. The place to do it would be in the properties panel for the flex-app-Flex Build Path - output folder. But the dialog requires me to enter a folder name which will be placed inside the servlet-name folder. When I try to leave this field blank, which would, conceptually, achieve the goal because the screen states that the path is relative to servlet-name, flex builder generates an error. Entering a full path i.e. C:\..., I dont get the error, but flexbuilder refuses to compile the app. The reason I want to do this is so that my url does not need to be www.somedomain.com/flex-app-name Thanks Hank How On 11/2/06, Nick Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:nick%40cassiel.com wrote: On 1 Nov 2006, at 22:22, hank williams wrote: I dont see how you avoid this since servlet containers require that the WEB-INF folder be in the root directory of the application, but this is not how flex structures things. With Flex/FDS there is the your webapp directory which is inside webapps, and then a sub directory, for the flex application I'm not sure I follow. I have FDS in Tomcat configured with webapps/MY APPLICATION/WEB-INF/ (and then flex/, lib/ etc.) and webapps/MY APPLICATION/mxml files and the context prefix is MY APPLICATION. In any case, I tend to solve URL mapping issues by bolting Apache on the front of the app and using the reverse proxy module... -- N. nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http:// www.cassiel.com -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to:
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Structuring a collection of Flex apps in a tomcat webapps folder
Hi there,What I usually do is create a virtual folder on my project which points to the tomcat webapp folder. Then I change the ouput folder through the compile settings screen: right click on the project - properties - Flex Build path. Then to force eclipse to launch for example http://localhost:8080/myApp you can go to Run as... - Run.. There you choose your flex project compilation configuration and change URL or path to launch. I'm not sure if this is what you were looking for. hope that helps.X.On 11/5/06, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Dustin,Thanks for verifying this.Its odd that so few people have noticed this. I guess perhaps everyone just uses apache as a front end. But for me setting up apache on linuxis just another headache since I am not familiar with it, so I reallydont want to introduce any new complexities. So what I am doing now is just manually copying the files out of the folder before I build warfiles. But this is really annoying. I guess if I switch to ant forbuilding my war's this could be automated.RegardsHankOn 11/4/06, Dustin Mercer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, this one is annoying.I don't use the Compile locally option just because of this issue.I have it compile on the server.Definately something that should be filed with Adobe though.I keep meaning to file a wish request for this, I'll make some time to do that today. Dustin Mercer From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com on behalf of hank williams Sent: Sat 11/4/2006 5:44 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Structuring a collection of Flex apps in a tomcat webapps folder Ok, looking at this somemore, I think this is most likely a design bug in flex builder. There is no reason for flex builder to prevent the user from specifying any folder he likes for the build output. For FDS applications, it seems the flex builder is limited to generating compiler output in a folder that is inside the web application folder. While the intentions are good, FDS should certainly not prevent the user from placing the output in root of the web application folder and not in a folder inside the web application folder. in other words flexbuilder will build this webapps mywebappfolder myflexappfolder yada.html yada.swf but flexbuilder will not build this: webapps mywebappfolder yada.html yada.swf which makes it very hard to make an app domain www.appname.com instead of www.appname.com/somefoldername without apache or some other indirection Regards Hank On 11/4/06, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:hank777%40gmail.com wrote: It sounds like you are letting FDS compile for you on the server. I am compiling on the client. To restate, hopefully, more clearly my problem, it is as follows: I want my swf and html output files to be inside: webapps/serlvet-name instead of: webapps/serlvet-name/flex-app-name I am not able to get flexbuilder to do this. The place to do it would be in the properties panel for the flex-app-Flex Build Path - output folder. But the dialog requires me to enter a folder name which will be placed inside the servlet-name folder. When I try to leave this field blank, which would, conceptually, achieve the goal because the screen states that the path is relative to servlet-name, flex builder generates an error. Entering a full path i.e. C:\..., I dont get the error, but flexbuilder refuses to compile the app. The reason I want to do this is so that my url does not need to be www.somedomain.com/flex-app-name Thanks Hank How On 11/2/06, Nick Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto: nick%40cassiel.com wrote: On 1 Nov 2006, at 22:22, hank williams wrote: I dont see how you avoid this since servlet containers require that the WEB-INF folder be in the root directory of the application, butthis is not how flex structures things. With Flex/FDS there is theyour webapp directory which is inside webapps, and then a sub directory, for the flex application I'm not sure I follow. I have FDS in Tomcat configured with webapps/MY APPLICATION/WEB-INF/ (and then flex/, lib/ etc.) and webapps/MY APPLICATION/mxml files and the context prefix is MY APPLICATION. In any case, I tend to solve URL mapping issues by bolting Apache on the front of the app and using the reverse proxy module... -- N. nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http:// www.cassiel.com -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Structuring a collection of Flex apps in a tomcat webapps folder
Oh, thats an interesting idea. A virtual folder. I'll have to try that. But boy such an ugly solution! I hopefully they can fix this.ThanksHankOn 11/5/06, Xavi Beumala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there,What I usually do is create a virtual folder on my project which points to the tomcat webapp folder. Then I change the ouput folder through the compile settings screen: right click on the project - properties - Flex Build path. Then to force eclipse to launch for example http://localhost:8080/myApp you can go to Run as... - Run.. There you choose your flex project compilation configuration and change URL or path to launch. I'm not sure if this is what you were looking for. hope that helps.X.On 11/5/06, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Dustin,Thanks for verifying this.Its odd that so few people have noticed this. I guess perhaps everyone just uses apache as a front end. But for me setting up apache on linuxis just another headache since I am not familiar with it, so I reallydont want to introduce any new complexities. So what I am doing now is just manually copying the files out of the folder before I build warfiles. But this is really annoying. I guess if I switch to ant forbuilding my war's this could be automated.RegardsHankOn 11/4/06, Dustin Mercer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, this one is annoying.I don't use the Compile locally option just because of this issue.I have it compile on the server.Definately something that should be filed with Adobe though.I keep meaning to file a wish request for this, I'll make some time to do that today. Dustin Mercer From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com on behalf of hank williams Sent: Sat 11/4/2006 5:44 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Structuring a collection of Flex apps in a tomcat webapps folder Ok, looking at this somemore, I think this is most likely a design bug in flex builder. There is no reason for flex builder to prevent the user from specifying any folder he likes for the build output. For FDS applications, it seems the flex builder is limited to generating compiler output in a folder that is inside the web application folder. While the intentions are good, FDS should certainly not prevent the user from placing the output in root of the web application folder and not in a folder inside the web application folder. in other words flexbuilder will build this webapps mywebappfolder myflexappfolder yada.html yada.swf but flexbuilder will not build this: webapps mywebappfolder yada.html yada.swf which makes it very hard to make an app domain www.appname.com instead of www.appname.com/somefoldername without apache or some other indirection Regards Hank On 11/4/06, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto: hank777%40gmail.com wrote: It sounds like you are letting FDS compile for you on the server. I am compiling on the client. To restate, hopefully, more clearly my problem, it is as follows: I want my swf and html output files to be inside: webapps/serlvet-name instead of: webapps/serlvet-name/flex-app-name I am not able to get flexbuilder to do this. The place to do it would be in the properties panel for the flex-app-Flex Build Path - output folder. But the dialog requires me to enter a folder name which will be placed inside the servlet-name folder. When I try to leave this field blank, which would, conceptually, achieve the goal because the screen states that the path is relative to servlet-name, flex builder generates an error. Entering a full path i.e. C:\..., I dont get the error, but flexbuilder refuses to compile the app. The reason I want to do this is so that my url does not need to be www.somedomain.com/flex-app-name Thanks Hank How On 11/2/06, Nick Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto: nick%40cassiel.com wrote: On 1 Nov 2006, at 22:22, hank williams wrote: I dont see how you avoid this since servlet containers require that the WEB-INF folder be in the root directory of the application, butthis is not how flex structures things. With Flex/FDS there is theyour webapp directory which is inside webapps, and then a sub directory, for the flex application I'm not sure I follow. I have FDS in Tomcat configured with webapps/MY APPLICATION/WEB-INF/ (and then flex/, lib/ etc.) and webapps/MY APPLICATION/mxml files and the context prefix is MY APPLICATION. In any case, I tend to solve URL mapping issues by bolting Apache on the front of the app and using the reverse proxy module... -- N. nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http:// www.cassiel.com -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Structuring a collection of Flex apps in a tomcat webapps folder
It sounds like you are letting FDS compile for you on the server. I am compiling on the client. To restate, hopefully, more clearly my problem, it is as follows: I want my swf and html output files to be inside: webapps/serlvet-name instead of: webapps/serlvet-name/flex-app-name I am not able to get flexbuilder to do this. The place to do it would be in the properties panel for the flex-app-Flex Build Path - output folder. But the dialog requires me to enter a folder name which will be placed inside the servlet-name folder. When I try to leave this field blank, which would, conceptually, achieve the goal because the screen states that the path is relative to servlet-name, flex builder generates an error. Entering a full path i.e. C:\..., I dont get the error, but flexbuilder refuses to compile the app. The reason I want to do this is so that my url does not need to be www.somedomain.com/flex-app-name Thanks Hank How On 11/2/06, Nick Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 Nov 2006, at 22:22, hank williams wrote: I dont see how you avoid this since servlet containers require that the WEB-INF folder be in the root directory of the application, but this is not how flex structures things. With Flex/FDS there is the your webapp directory which is inside webapps, and then a sub directory, for the flex application I'm not sure I follow. I have FDS in Tomcat configured with webapps/MY APPLICATION/WEB-INF/ (and then flex/, lib/ etc.) and webapps/MY APPLICATION/mxml files and the context prefix is MY APPLICATION. In any case, I tend to solve URL mapping issues by bolting Apache on the front of the app and using the reverse proxy module... -- N. nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http:// www.cassiel.com -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Structuring a collection of Flex apps in a tomcat webapps folder
Ok, looking at this somemore, I think this is most likely a design bug in flex builder. There is no reason for flex builder to prevent the user from specifying any folder he likes for the build output. For FDS applications, it seems the flex builder is limited to generating compiler output in a folder that is inside the web application folder. While the intentions are good, FDS should certainly not prevent the user from placing the output in root of the web application folder and not in a folder inside the web application folder. in other words flexbuilder will build this webapps mywebappfolder myflexappfolder yada.html yada.swf but flexbuilder will not build this: webapps mywebappfolder yada.html yada.swf which makes it very hard to make an app domain www.appname.com instead of www.appname.com/somefoldername without apache or some other indirection Regards Hank On 11/4/06, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sounds like you are letting FDS compile for you on the server. I am compiling on the client. To restate, hopefully, more clearly my problem, it is as follows: I want my swf and html output files to be inside: webapps/serlvet-name instead of: webapps/serlvet-name/flex-app-name I am not able to get flexbuilder to do this. The place to do it would be in the properties panel for the flex-app-Flex Build Path - output folder. But the dialog requires me to enter a folder name which will be placed inside the servlet-name folder. When I try to leave this field blank, which would, conceptually, achieve the goal because the screen states that the path is relative to servlet-name, flex builder generates an error. Entering a full path i.e. C:\..., I dont get the error, but flexbuilder refuses to compile the app. The reason I want to do this is so that my url does not need to be www.somedomain.com/flex-app-name Thanks Hank How On 11/2/06, Nick Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 Nov 2006, at 22:22, hank williams wrote: I dont see how you avoid this since servlet containers require that the WEB-INF folder be in the root directory of the application, but this is not how flex structures things. With Flex/FDS there is the your webapp directory which is inside webapps, and then a sub directory, for the flex application I'm not sure I follow. I have FDS in Tomcat configured with webapps/MY APPLICATION/WEB-INF/ (and then flex/, lib/ etc.) and webapps/MY APPLICATION/mxml files and the context prefix is MY APPLICATION. In any case, I tend to solve URL mapping issues by bolting Apache on the front of the app and using the reverse proxy module... -- N. nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http:// www.cassiel.com -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Structuring a collection of Flex apps in a tomcat webapps folder
Yeah, this one is annoying. I don't use the Compile locally option just because of this issue. I have it compile on the server. Definately something that should be filed with Adobe though. I keep meaning to file a wish request for this, I'll make some time to do that today. Dustin Mercer From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com on behalf of hank williams Sent: Sat 11/4/2006 5:44 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Structuring a collection of Flex apps in a tomcat webapps folder Ok, looking at this somemore, I think this is most likely a design bug in flex builder. There is no reason for flex builder to prevent the user from specifying any folder he likes for the build output. For FDS applications, it seems the flex builder is limited to generating compiler output in a folder that is inside the web application folder. While the intentions are good, FDS should certainly not prevent the user from placing the output in root of the web application folder and not in a folder inside the web application folder. in other words flexbuilder will build this webapps mywebappfolder myflexappfolder yada.html yada.swf but flexbuilder will not build this: webapps mywebappfolder yada.html yada.swf which makes it very hard to make an app domain www.appname.com instead of www.appname.com/somefoldername without apache or some other indirection Regards Hank On 11/4/06, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:hank777%40gmail.com wrote: It sounds like you are letting FDS compile for you on the server. I am compiling on the client. To restate, hopefully, more clearly my problem, it is as follows: I want my swf and html output files to be inside: webapps/serlvet-name instead of: webapps/serlvet-name/flex-app-name I am not able to get flexbuilder to do this. The place to do it would be in the properties panel for the flex-app-Flex Build Path - output folder. But the dialog requires me to enter a folder name which will be placed inside the servlet-name folder. When I try to leave this field blank, which would, conceptually, achieve the goal because the screen states that the path is relative to servlet-name, flex builder generates an error. Entering a full path i.e. C:\..., I dont get the error, but flexbuilder refuses to compile the app. The reason I want to do this is so that my url does not need to be www.somedomain.com/flex-app-name Thanks Hank How On 11/2/06, Nick Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:nick%40cassiel.com wrote: On 1 Nov 2006, at 22:22, hank williams wrote: I dont see how you avoid this since servlet containers require that the WEB-INF folder be in the root directory of the application, but this is not how flex structures things. With Flex/FDS there is the your webapp directory which is inside webapps, and then a sub directory, for the flex application I'm not sure I follow. I have FDS in Tomcat configured with webapps/MY APPLICATION/WEB-INF/ (and then flex/, lib/ etc.) and webapps/MY APPLICATION/mxml files and the context prefix is MY APPLICATION. In any case, I tend to solve URL mapping issues by bolting Apache on the front of the app and using the reverse proxy module... -- N. nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http:// www.cassiel.com -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ winmail.dat
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Structuring a collection of Flex apps in a tomcat webapps folder
On 1 Nov 2006, at 22:22, hank williams wrote: I dont see how you avoid this since servlet containers require that the WEB-INF folder be in the root directory of the application, but this is not how flex structures things. With Flex/FDS there is the your webapp directory which is inside webapps, and then a sub directory, for the flex application I'm not sure I follow. I have FDS in Tomcat configured with webapps/MY APPLICATION/WEB-INF/ (and then flex/, lib/ etc.) and webapps/MY APPLICATION/mxml files and the context prefix is MY APPLICATION. In any case, I tend to solve URL mapping issues by bolting Apache on the front of the app and using the reverse proxy module... -- N. nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http:// www.cassiel.com -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[flexcoders] Re: Structuring a collection of Flex apps in a tomcat webapps folder
Sounds like this is beyond the scope of Tomcat configuration, since the hostname will be resolved by DNS at the client regardless of what webserver is actually running on that host. Assuming you have DNS issues already worked out though, you could easily just redirect to the desired url by using some JavaScript in a default HTML page on your host. Something like: var loc = window.location.toString(); if (loc.indexOf(www.somedomain.com) != -1) window.location = http://www.somedomain.com/flexapp1;; else if (loc.indexOf(ww2.somedomain.com) != -1) window.location = http://www.somedomain.com/flexapp2;; else if (loc.indexOf(ww3.somedomain.com) != -1) window.location = http://www.somedomain.com/flexapp3;; You'll have other issues even with this approach, though; domain names might be entered by the user in mixed case, or the IP address might be used instead of the hostname, and probably many others. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a three flex applications that live under one FDS web app. Imagine a directory structure as follows webapps mainFDSAppName flexapp1 flexapp2 flexapp3 I want to be able to say www.somedomain.com points to flexapp1 ww2.somedomain.com points to flexapp2 ww3.somedomain.com points to flexapp3 My system administrator is telling me that tomcat will not allow an app to be at a deeper level than at the top of the webapps directory without additional path information. This means that I could make an app inside mainFDSAppName be www.somdomain.com but flexapp1 has to be www.somedomain.com/flexapp1. I know that the www, ww1 and ww2 require additional CNAMEs. That is not the issue. The issue is whether I can using some combination of CNAME and other tomcat configurations to make the nice url's described above. I also want to do something that will allow me to not do extra work every time I want to build and/or deploy my app. Hank -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Structuring a collection of Flex apps in a tomcat webapps folder
Thanks. But I did figure it out. I just needed to configure a new host in my server.xml file with an appBase parameter that points to the necessary directory. The concern that my admin had was that he believed that the directory pointed to by appBase had to have a WEB-INF directory. This does make sense, but it appears not to be the case. The WEB-INF folder may indeed be one level up as it is in the case of where the flex app is vs the root of the webapp. Honestly, I'm not sure why we are able to get away with this, but it does work. Hank On 11/1/06, Doug Lowder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like this is beyond the scope of Tomcat configuration, since the hostname will be resolved by DNS at the client regardless of what webserver is actually running on that host. Assuming you have DNS issues already worked out though, you could easily just redirect to the desired url by using some JavaScript in a default HTML page on your host. Something like: var loc = window.location.toString(); if (loc.indexOf(www.somedomain.com) != -1) window.location = http://www.somedomain.com/flexapp1;; else if (loc.indexOf(ww2.somedomain.com) != -1) window.location = http://www.somedomain.com/flexapp2;; else if (loc.indexOf(ww3.somedomain.com) != -1) window.location = http://www.somedomain.com/flexapp3;; You'll have other issues even with this approach, though; domain names might be entered by the user in mixed case, or the IP address might be used instead of the hostname, and probably many others. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a three flex applications that live under one FDS web app. Imagine a directory structure as follows webapps mainFDSAppName flexapp1 flexapp2 flexapp3 I want to be able to say www.somedomain.com points to flexapp1 ww2.somedomain.com points to flexapp2 ww3.somedomain.com points to flexapp3 My system administrator is telling me that tomcat will not allow an app to be at a deeper level than at the top of the webapps directory without additional path information. This means that I could make an app inside mainFDSAppName be www.somdomain.com but flexapp1 has to be www.somedomain.com/flexapp1. I know that the www, ww1 and ww2 require additional CNAMEs. That is not the issue. The issue is whether I can using some combination of CNAME and other tomcat configurations to make the nice url's described above. I also want to do something that will allow me to not do extra work every time I want to build and/or deploy my app. Hank -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Structuring a collection of Flex apps in a tomcat webapps folder
On further investigation, our initial understanding was correct and the WEB-INF folder must be inside the application directory. I thought things worked because tomcat will point to the app, but the FDS remote access does not work. So I guess the simple question is this. Do all FDS applications require a sub folder to be specified? In other words must all FDS apps be www.somedomain.com/flexapp ? I dont see how you avoid this since servlet containers require that the WEB-INF folder be in the root directory of the application, but this is not how flex structures things. With Flex/FDS there is the your webapp directory which is inside webapps, and then a sub directory, for the flex application. How do you get FDS apps to use a simple url? Hank On 11/1/06, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. But I did figure it out. I just needed to configure a new host in my server.xml file with an appBase parameter that points to the necessary directory. The concern that my admin had was that he believed that the directory pointed to by appBase had to have a WEB-INF directory. This does make sense, but it appears not to be the case. The WEB-INF folder may indeed be one level up as it is in the case of where the flex app is vs the root of the webapp. Honestly, I'm not sure why we are able to get away with this, but it does work. Hank On 11/1/06, Doug Lowder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like this is beyond the scope of Tomcat configuration, since the hostname will be resolved by DNS at the client regardless of what webserver is actually running on that host. Assuming you have DNS issues already worked out though, you could easily just redirect to the desired url by using some JavaScript in a default HTML page on your host. Something like: var loc = window.location.toString(); if (loc.indexOf(www.somedomain.com) != -1) window.location = http://www.somedomain.com/flexapp1;; else if (loc.indexOf(ww2.somedomain.com) != -1) window.location = http://www.somedomain.com/flexapp2;; else if (loc.indexOf(ww3.somedomain.com) != -1) window.location = http://www.somedomain.com/flexapp3;; You'll have other issues even with this approach, though; domain names might be entered by the user in mixed case, or the IP address might be used instead of the hostname, and probably many others. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a three flex applications that live under one FDS web app. Imagine a directory structure as follows webapps mainFDSAppName flexapp1 flexapp2 flexapp3 I want to be able to say www.somedomain.com points to flexapp1 ww2.somedomain.com points to flexapp2 ww3.somedomain.com points to flexapp3 My system administrator is telling me that tomcat will not allow an app to be at a deeper level than at the top of the webapps directory without additional path information. This means that I could make an app inside mainFDSAppName be www.somdomain.com but flexapp1 has to be www.somedomain.com/flexapp1. I know that the www, ww1 and ww2 require additional CNAMEs. That is not the issue. The issue is whether I can using some combination of CNAME and other tomcat configurations to make the nice url's described above. I also want to do something that will allow me to not do extra work every time I want to build and/or deploy my app. Hank -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
