So does that mean that this link is just a link to the documentation (which is
not included with spacewalk)
https://spacewalk.company.com/rhn/help/client-config/en/index.jsp
and doesn't actually give you the ability to register client via the web gui?
Thanks
Steve
> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:12:58 -0800
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] register systems
>
> [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
> --
> Mike McCune
> mmccune AT redhat.com
> Engineering | Portland, OR
> RHN Satellite | 650.567.9039x79248
>
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