I'm pleased to report that, after much perseverance, Roller appears (mostly) to be running correctly on my web server. Importantly, the multi-domain feature is working, and this is with Tomcat/Roller operating behind an Apache HTTP (proxy) server. This is made possible thanks to the Apache mod_proxy module.
My Roller installation is hosting the following six blogs: weblog.absoluteurl.optomus=http://blog.optomus.com weblog.absoluteurl.bread=http://blog.bread.co.nz weblog.absoluteurl.capereinga=http://blog.capereinga.co.nz weblog.absoluteurl.doubtlessbay=http://blog.doubtlessbay.co weblog.absoluteurl.christopher=http://blog.christopher.net.nz weblog.absoluteurl.isaac=http://blog.isaac.net.nz Three of the above are working correctly; three are not. Roller is running from webapps/ROOT context. **Case 1** http://blog.capereinga.co.nz/capereinga http://blog.doubtlessbay.co/doubtlessbay http://blog.isaac.net.nz/isaac These are working correctly, but I'm unclear as to why it is necessary to add the handle name to the end of the URL. Ideally, one should arrive at capereinga blog via http://blog.capereinga.co.nz. I would expect Roller to locate blog.capereinga.co.nz in the header of the incoming HTTP request packet, and serve up the correct blog by way of the associated 'weblog.absoluteurl' directive. Instead, http://blog.capereinga.co.nz serves up the default (optomus) blog page. Here are the mod_proxy directives for the above three domains: ProxyPass / ajp://127.0.0.1:8009/ ProxyPassReverse / ajp://127.0.0.1:8009/ **Case 2** http://blog.optomus.com/optomus http://blog.christopher.net.nz/christopher These are not working correctly. Tomcat is responding with the output from a Servlet not even belonging to Roller. This is due to the fact that I happen to have web applications under webapps/optomus and webapps/christopher. Maybe a Tomcat configurational change would re route these. **Case 3** http://blog.bread.co.nz/bread Really, this blog can be counted under case 1 above. Except that the mod_proxy directive is set to: ProxyPass / ajp://127.0.0.1:8009/bread/ ProxyPassReverse / ajp://127.0.0.1:8009/bread/ I hoped this would allow me to use http://blog.bread.co.nz, without the blog handle at the end. It does, but, unfortunately, also produces the original problem of bad URLs inside the HTML. For example, CSS is not located and loaded. So, although Roller is now multi-domain functional, certain problems persist. I'm not yet at the stage of producing a Roller HOWTO that would give consistent, satisfactory results for those running Roller behind an Apache HTTP proxy server. Regards, Chris Dodunski.
