topic Re: How to use /share webapp as default in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-use-share-webapp-as-default/m-p/262608#M215738 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have to admit, I do not know what Nginx is by itself or is capable of doing. In most use cases, Apache httpd is used as the front-facing proxy and is able to do this kind of redirection using URL rewriting (mod_rewrite module). A quick look on Google found this, which seems to be the Nginx equivalent: </SPAN><A href="http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRewriteModule" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRewriteModule</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Tomcat should </SPAN><STRONG>almost never</STRONG><SPAN> be used to do redirection / indirection handling. Front facing web servers are able to handle it way more efficiently and should do the utmost to offload computational load from the application server.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Axel</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:41:30 GMT afaust 2012-07-10T22:41:30Z How to use /share webapp as default https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-use-share-webapp-as-default/m-p/262607#M215737 Hey All,I have my Alfresco server set up on CentOS 6 (mysql) using an Nginx front end as a reverse proxy for SSL. What I would like to do is have my users be able to get to the site buy going directly to a short URL (eg http://docs.mycompany.com) rather than having to specify the /share webapp. I as Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:48:23 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-use-share-webapp-as-default/m-p/262607#M215737 newadmin 2012-07-04T17:48:23Z Re: How to use /share webapp as default https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-use-share-webapp-as-default/m-p/262608#M215738 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have to admit, I do not know what Nginx is by itself or is capable of doing. In most use cases, Apache httpd is used as the front-facing proxy and is able to do this kind of redirection using URL rewriting (mod_rewrite module). A quick look on Google found this, which seems to be the Nginx equivalent: </SPAN><A href="http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRewriteModule" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRewriteModule</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Tomcat should </SPAN><STRONG>almost never</STRONG><SPAN> be used to do redirection / indirection handling. Front facing web servers are able to handle it way more efficiently and should do the utmost to offload computational load from the application server.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Axel</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:41:30 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-use-share-webapp-as-default/m-p/262608#M215738 afaust 2012-07-10T22:41:30Z