What you can do is:
1. Mount your application in OFbiz as "YourApp" and not root.
2. Create a virtual host in the Apache Web server or use the default one
if you have just one.
3. You can copy the static contents to the document root of the virtual
host.
4. Use AJP proxy to map your root request to "YourApp". For example,
Apache will forward all requests coming at
http://www.yourdomain.com/ to ajp://localhost:8080/yourapp/ and you can
copy your images to the document root of the your virtual host. In your
virtual host proxy mapping you can exclude the static contents such as
your images. I generally use mod_rewirte and below is a simple example:
RewriteCond /srv/www/yourdomain/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond /srv/www/yourdomain//%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ ajp://localhost:8009/yourapp/control/$1
This directive says, if the last part of URL is not a physical file or
directory on filesystem, forward it to OFBiz, else serve it from file
system. If you copy your images to the document root and above
conditions hold false, they will be served by Apache Web sever.
You can still access other OFbiz application using 9443 port, or create
their own virtual hosts or use a single virtual host to serve them.
Thanks,
Raj
On Wednesday 03 August 2011 04:36 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
Hello Raj,
And thank you for the explaination. I totally understand this from
Bilgin reply. I didn't think of it, until he reminded me there's an
"image" component. But I am interested to see other solutions.
With regard to you suggestion, I have the web application already
deployed and it works with or without ofbiz. But how would configuring
apache server help in solving the issue of accessing static contents
under myApplication. Assuming the I will foward all the requests on port
80 to port 8080, and 443 to 8443, how would this solve the issue ?
On Wed Aug 03,2011 04:12 pm, Raj Saini wrote:
Your problem is OFBiz image application is conflicting with the image
folder of your root application. One way to solve this is to use Apache
Web server to front your OFbiz instance. This way, you can serve the
images statically and few people claim it is faster to serve static
contents using Apache Web server than servlet engines like Tomcat. This
way, you can also easily have multiple domain serving applications from
single instance of OFbiz.
If you want to go this way, you will need mod_proxy and mod_proxy_ajp
and configure your Apache web server. There are instructions on wiki
that you can search.
Thanks,
Raj
On Wednesday 03 August 2011 03:22 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
Hardik,
can you please kindly elaborate ?
What are the parameters that I can pass through ofbiz startup scripts to
fix this issue?
I have the application in hot-deploy already.
On Wed Aug 03,2011 02:27 pm, Hardik Handa wrote:
What I would prefer is to keep the application in hot deploy folder and pass
the parameter to the startup file for the external application into the
startupofbiz.bat , this would lead to the external application to start
whenever you start Ofbiz.
Cheers,
Hardik Handa
[email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: Bilgin Ibryam [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 2:20 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Accessing images from external application
I had a similar problem and if I remember right, the problem was that
images folder inside my custom app was confused with images
application existing in framework. The solution I found was to rename
images folder inside my custom app.
HTH
Bilgin Ibryam
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Mansour Al Akeel
<[email protected]> wrote:
I have a web application that I need to run on the same server as ofbiz.
The choices I have are either to deploy ofbiz to an external server
(tomcat or geronimo) and deploy my other webapp to the same server,
or deploy the application under ofbiz and get the built-in servlet
container to serve the requests.
I found what I am trying to do is described in this document
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Load+OpenI+%28Mondrian+Implementation%29+under+OFBiz
I deployed my web application following this document. However, when I
mount the application on something like (mount-point="/myApplicaiton")
everything works fine. But when I make it the default application and
mount it on ( mount-point="/"), I don't see the images on the pages.
css files are served properly, but not images !
The error I get when I try to browse to the image URL
is error 404. For example, http://localhost:8080/images/lines.png will
result in error 404 only when the application is mounted on "/".
If I mount the same application on "/myApplication" and access it with
http://localhost:8080/myApplication/images/lines.png it will work fine !
Is there any additional configuration I need to do to get the images to
display properly ?
Thank you in advance.
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