[email protected] wrote:
I log into spacewalk. From the first page, overview, I click on register
systems. I get a 404:
The page you requested, /rhn/help/client-config/en/index.jsp, was not found.
this is because Spacewalk does not include the online documentation that
is included in the commercial product, RHN Satellite. There going to be
lots of places in the GUI that link to the online help docs that you
will see generating these 404s.
I look in /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out, and see the same message that I
mentioned a few weeks ago, when I spoke of hacking around with spacewalk, and
was castigated for doing so:
Feb 17, 2009 9:06:21 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor
WARNING: A docBase /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/rhn inside the host appBase has
been specified, and will be ignored
So, unless someone yells at me that there's a good reason not to, that doing so
will break something else, I'm going to recursively copy the whole directory to
/var/www/html. Last time, I tried symbolic links, and tomcat still complained.
that will do nothing for you, see below.
Does anyone have a good explanation for a) why the directory's under
>/var/lib/tomcat5/webapps, instead of /var/www/html, and b) this wasn't caught long
before >the release of 0.4? This time, I have *not*, until now, hacked at the system
to make it work, >but this functionality (or lack thereof) is obviously a problem.
because parts of our webui are served up by Tomcat and parts are served
up by Apache. Everything under /var/www/html is served by apache and
everything served by tomcat is in /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps.
Copying stuff from /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps to /var/www/html won't get
you anything.
Everything under:
http://yourserver.example.com/rhn/
is *forwarded* to tomcat by apache. This is done with a http
configuration found here:
/etc/httpd/conf.d/zz-spacewalk-server.conf
<IfModule proxy_ajp_module>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/rhn(.*) ajp://localhost:8009/rhn$1 [P]
RewriteRule ^(/.*\.(do|jsp)(\?.*)?)$ ajp://localhost:8009/$1 [P]
This means that *any* url ending in .do or .jsp goes to tomcat as well
as anything in the /rhn/ path. If you copy stuff to /var/www/html/rhn/
it should just get ignored.
Actually, thinking further, I wonder if this was why both methods of
registering a system, rhnreg_ks and rhn_register, gave error messages, even
though it had succeeded.
the 404s from the webui's online docs are unrelated to any errors you
get from rhnreg_ks or rhn-register, FYI.
Mike
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Mike McCune
mmccune AT redhat.com
Engineering | Portland, OR
RHN Satellite | 650.567.9039x79248
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