It may be worth putting this into the documentation
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Vincent Massol
Sent: 03 July 2008 16:43
To: XWiki Users
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] XEM Configuration
Thanks a lot Jamie for posting back the solution. It's great you did
this and I'm sure it'll help others in the future.
Thanks
-Vincent
On Jul 3, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Jamison Novak wrote:
> Please disregard the original message below. After a day and a half of
> banging my head against the wall, I figured out the problem I was
> having with virtual wikis.
>
> Just in case anybody else runs into the problem I was experiencing
> with
> Apache+Resin+XEM, I'll summarize.
>
> XEM was installed, running, and apparently functioning correctly. I
> was able to get to the "master" xwiki instance, create/modfiy/delete
> virtual wikis, and do everything you'd expect within that interface.
> No matter how I specified the host/domain information for the virtual
> wiki, however, I was not able to get to the virtual wiki instance.
>
> DNS was correct, Apache was sending me to the right place, but the
> "redirect" file in the XWiki directory would just get displayed as
> text and the wiki itself would never come up even if I went directly
> to various known-good pages.
>
> It turns out that Resin was actually the culprit. In the config file,
> I'd specified the Resin host as this:
>
> <host id="xwiki.domain.dom" root-directory="/usr/local/www/xwiki"
> host-name="xwiki.domain.dom" host-alias="xwiki">
>
> So, even though DNS entries and Apache Virtual Hosts were created for
> the *other* virtual wiki instances, Resin only cared about the
> xwiki.domain.dom hostname/instance and let everything else stay with
> Apache. I made the following change to my configuration (broken out
> into separate tags for ease-of-reading) and it's now working
> swimmingly:
>
> <host regexp="([^.]+)\.domain\.dom">
> <host-name>${host.regexp[1]}.domain.dom</host-name>
> <host-alias>${host.regexp[1]}</host-alias>
> <root-directory>/usr/local/www/xwiki</root-directory>
>
> Sorry for another long post, but I figured this was worth sending in
> case there's another masochist out there running XWiki under
> Apache+Resin and having the same problems. (Things get murky when
> you're
> dealing with resin's ability to handle virtual hosts, apache's ability
> to handle virtual hosts, and xwiki's ability to detect virtual hosts -
> all independently functioning and configured).
>
> Cheers,
> Jamie
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Jamison Novak
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 4:39 PM
> To: users@xwiki.org
> Subject: [xwiki-users] XEM Configuration
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm new to XWiki (and the list) and have a few questions. I'm
> specifically needing help with the Virtual Wiki portion of things, but
> that will be for a follow-up Email. The first thing I need to verify
> is that I've got the base installation of things essentially correctly
> configured.
>
> Our webserver is Apache 2.0 with Java being served up by Resin on the
> back end. I've installed XWiki Enterprise Manager 1.2 into its own
> directory (/usr/local/www/xwiki) and created a separate Resin instance
> for it (listening on port 6807). A portion of the XWiki Resin config
> file looks like this:
>
> <host id="xwiki.domain.dom" root-directory="/usr/local/www/xwiki/"
> host-name="xwiki.domain.dom" host-alias="xwiki">
> <web-app id="/" document-directory="/usr/local/www/xwiki/">
> [...]
> </web-app>
> </host>
>
> The Resin instance starts fine. I created a Virtual Host for it in
> Apache as follows:
>
> <VirtualHost MY_IP:80>
> ServerName xwiki.domain.dom
> ServerAlias xwiki
> DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/xwiki/
> ResinConfigServer localhost 6807
> </VirtualHost>
>
> The main problem I have is that I can't get the wiki to load. If I go
> to http://xwiki/ or http://xwiki.domain.dom/ (internal server; don't
> bother
> trying) -- I just get a directory listing of the XWiki files. If I
> click on the "redirect" text file in the directory, it will work its
> magic and send me to the welcome page for the wiki.
>
> I haven't seen anything mentioned anywhere about that specific
> problem, so I'm asking. Is it normal to have to add something like
> this to the VirtualHost container:
>
> RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ /redirect
>
> In effect, doing two redirects on the initial root page load? Is there
> another way I should be configuring things?
>
> Sorry for the length. I just wanted to give a bit of background before
> I asked, since I have a follow-up question or two regarding running
> Virtual Wikis (ugh).
>
> Thanks for listening.
>
> -Jamie
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