topic Re: Tried to set share.war as the ROOT webapp in Alfresco Archive

Tried to set share.war as the ROOT webapp

srosenfeld — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:28:35 GMT

I am currently running Alfresco 4.0.c Community on RHE 6.2x64So I was looking on how to remove the /share from the URL of alfresco, and after reading some documentation ended up breaking my share webapp. The last thing done that seems to have broken it, was to rename the share.war file to ROOT.war

Re: Tried to set share.war as the ROOT webapp

srosenfeld — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:47:17 GMT

The reason I was doing this was to have our Apache Tomcat Connector url (curren't just share.domain.com) load the /share webapp as the root. I have tried to change the ROOT.xml to load the share.war file but this was unsuccessful. is there a way to have the Apache Tomcat Connector connect to /share but load back to the default share.domain.com?

Essentially I want to type in share.domain.com but have it actually load share.domain.com/share.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Re: Tried to set share.war as the ROOT webapp

afaust — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:27:27 GMT

Hello,

this is the typical use case for using an Apache HTTPd as a proxy server. Your Tomcat setup will be standard while the Apache HTTPd transparently exposes the application under a specific URL / domain. There are plenty of examples on the net on how to setup Alfresco + Apache HTTPd proxy, as well as using Apache HTTPd proxy to mask the actual URLs.

Regards
Axel

Re: Tried to set share.war as the ROOT webapp

srosenfeld — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:12:28 GMT

I have tried searching for what I want to accomplish but I cannot find it. I have successfully setup Apache with the connect which works great and removes the :8080/:8443 from the URL I type. I am looking for a way also to set up the url to remove the /share when typing to. I essentially want https://share.domain.com to actually load https://share.domain.com/share and have this be a persistent change. IE https://share.domain.com/page/site/mysite will load https://share.domain.com/share/page/mysite instead of just forwarding/rewriting https://share.domain.com to https://share.domain.com/share

Does that make more sense?

Re: Tried to set share.war as the ROOT webapp

afaust — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:50:37 GMT

Hello,

as far as I see it, the following directive (combined with the ProxyPassReverse directive and related configuration) should achieve what you want to.


ProxyPass / http://tomcat.domain.com/share/ 
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When the Apache HTTPd is accesible as host share.domain.com, the "/" proxy mount transparently redirects to Share on the tomcat host. In such a scenario, you usually terminate HTTPS on the Apache HTTPd server and connect either via HTTP or AJP to Tomcat.

Regards
Axel