Re: [dspace-tech] Anything to keep in mind before changing port 8080 to 80?

2019-01-23 Thread Stan Orlov
Thank you very much, Alan. We have not set up SSL yet, but will, using your example. On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 10:11:16 UTC-4, Alan Orth wrote: > > Dear Stan, > > If you are already using Apache HTTPD in front of Tomcat that is good > enough—no need to switch to nginx. In your Apache HTTPD

Re: [dspace-tech] Anything to keep in mind before changing port 8080 to 80?

2019-01-23 Thread Alan Orth
Dear Stan, If you are already using Apache HTTPD in front of Tomcat that is good enough—no need to switch to nginx. In your Apache HTTPD virtualhost you just need to set up a reverse proxy to your Tomcat port on 8080, then in your Tomcat server.xml you need to make sure Tomcat knows it is being

Re: [dspace-tech] Anything to keep in mind before changing port 8080 to 80?

2019-01-22 Thread Stan Orlov
Thank you for the suggestion, Alan. I am just not sure how involved moving from Apache 2.4 to nginx would be. I plan to upgrade our instance of DSpace to the latest version over the next few months, building a new server and migrating data from the old one, but if I could just get rid of 8080

Re: [dspace-tech] Anything to keep in mind before changing port 8080 to 80?

2019-01-21 Thread Alan Orth
Dear Stan, I'd recommend using a "normal" HTTP server in front of your Tomcat. We've used Apache HTTPD in the past, but for the past few years I've really enjoyed using nginx. Normal HTTP servers make it easier to do things like HTTPS, virtual hosting, URL rewrites, rate limiting, etc. You can

[dspace-tech] Anything to keep in mind before changing port 8080 to 80?

2019-01-21 Thread Stan Orlov
Greetings, I plan to switch 8080 to 80, but wonder whether it will affect anything adversely. We have a Handle server set up, but I hope that we don't need to change anything at that end. What about other external sites potentially linking to us now, would that change of port make the items