Am 19.04.2011 00:08, schrieb Sergiu Dumitriu: > On 04/18/2011 03:52 PM, li...@yhmail.de wrote: >> Hey, >> >> thanks it works now. At least I do not get any errors at the moment. >> Could you explain to me what the difference is? (HTTP vs. ajp) When proxying? > ajp is a direct connection between httpd and tomcat, which basically > lets Tomcat take care of a request on behalf of httpd. The request > details are kept in place, including the hostname, the port, whether the > connection is secure (SSL/https) or not... > > HTTP proxying means that httpd clones the initial client request as a > new http request to the Tomcat server. Thus, unless specifically > configured to try and pass some details from the initial request, Tomcat > will just see this as an ordinary request done to "localhost" on port 8080. > > ProxyPass, ProxyPassReverse and ProxyPreserveHost try to keep the same > hostname (www.my-domain.de instead of localhost), but don't keep the > fact that HTTPS was used.
Thanks for the backgrounder ! > The problem with the blog is that unlike most parts of the wiki, > absolute URLs are used when creating a new category. This means that a > full URL, trying to match the requested URL, is computed. Now, since > Tomcat/XWiki doesn't really know the original URL, the generated URL > will be most likely wrong, pointing to the wrong host and port. Couldn't that / shouldn't that be changed so that its possible to reliably operate XWiki with all of its features behind a httpd ? I think a lot of people are doing that (including me). Never tried blogging though .... Are other parts of XWiki also affected by this 'wrong' computation of the url ? kind regards Andreas >> @Everybody: Thank you for your help. >> >> Cheers, >> Chris >> >> >> Quoting "Kevin P. Foote"<kpfo...@iup.edu>: >> >>> Stephanie - >>> >>> I use mod_jk for other reasons.. but mod_proxy_ajp is similar.. there is no >>> reason why this should not work .. >>> >>> Make some changes though.. >>> >>> In your httpd conf where you have your virtual host defined >>> >>> change ServerName to the full address >>> >>> ServerName https://www.my-domain.de >>> >>> Dont proxy to tomcat via http... use tomcat in ajp mode .. >>> disable port :8080 and server xwiki over :8009 only to local host via >>> your<tomcat location>/conf/server.xml file. (usually all you need to do >>> is comment the 8080 stuff and uncomment the 8009. >>> >>> your proxy string will look something like this then.. >>> >>> ProxyPass /xwikiv2 ajp://localhost:8009/<xwiki instance> >>> >>> >>> ------ >>> thanks >>> kevin.foote >>> >>> On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, li...@yhmail.de wrote: >>> >>> -> Hello again, >>> -> >>> -> we are running a tomcat-server "behind" an apache-server. In order to >>> -> redirect the request we use the following configuration: >>> -> >>> -> <VirtualHost *:80> >>> -> ServerName www.my-domain.de >>> -> ServerAlias my-domain.de >>> -> Redirect permanent / https://www.my-domain.de/ >>> -> </VirtualHost> >>> -> >>> -> <VirtualHost *:443> >>> -> ServerName www.my-domain.de >>> -> >>> -> SSLEngine On >>> -> SSLProxyEngine On >>> -> >>> -> SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/my-domain.crt >>> -> SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/my-domain.key >>> -> >>> -> <Proxy *> >>> -> Order allow,deny >>> -> Allow from all >>> -> </Proxy> >>> -> >>> -> >>> -> Redirect / /xwikiv2/ >>> -> >>> -> ProxyPass /xwikiv2 http://localhost:8080/xwikiv2 >>> -> ProxyPassReverse /xwikiv2 http://localhost:8080/xwikiv2 >>> -> ProxyPreserveHost On >>> -> </VirtualHost> >>> -> >>> -> So all communication should be encrypted and the user should >>> -> immediately be redirected to the wiki. >>> -> >>> -> With these settings we encounter a strange behaviour. For example the >>> -> Blog refuses to create a new category (see: [xwiki-users] Server not >>> -> responding when creating a new Blog-Category). If I point my browser >>> -> directly to my-domain.de:8080 I can create categories. >>> -> >>> -> Is the config file correct? Is there a better way? >>> -> >>> -> Cheers, >>> -> Stephanie > _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
