Am 19.04.2011 15:41, schrieb Sergiu Dumitriu: > On 04/19/2011 09:09 AM, Andreas Hahn wrote: >> Am 19.04.2011 00:08, schrieb Sergiu Dumitriu: >>> On 04/18/2011 03:52 PM, [email protected] 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 ? > It does work, if the configuration is correct.
I see. I just checked with my installation that Blog works ok. If I understand correctly that has to do with the fact that I'm just using simple HTTP proxying (and not HTTPS, in this case ajp should be used). >> 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 ? >> > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
