ALfresco endpoints modification safe?

[mike54]

Hi!

I have read that people who tried to modify all endpoints fro Alfresco ended up with some problems.

My situaltion is like that - I have two hosts on Tomcat server localhost:8080 (not localhost:8080/alfresco !) that serves Alfresco and share:8080 with Share application.
I did it because I was unable to map this into Apache HTTPD server in this way:
mydomain.com -> localhost:8080/alfresco (the mod_JK connctor does not work this way or I don't know how to configure it)
But this works (if alfresco is the ROOT application):
mydomain.com -> localhost:8080

That is very nice and clean solution, but ALfresco has many (too many) endpoints:

WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/webscripts/org/alfresco/indexall.get.mediawiki.ftl: [http://localhost:8080${url.serviceContext}${uri} ${desc.method} ${url.serviceContext}${uri}]
WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/imap/default/imap-server.properties:#imap.server.web.application.context.url=http://localhost:8080/alfresco
WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/webscript-framework-config-test.xml:           <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s</endpoint-url>
WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/repository.get.html.ftl:        <tr><td>Service URI: <input name="url" size="50" value="http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/cmis"></td></tr>
WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/webscript-framework-config.xml:                                <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s</endpoint-url>
WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/webscript-framework-config.xml:                                <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s</endpoint-url>
WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/webscript-framework-config.xml:                                <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s</endpoint-url>
WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/webscript-framework-config.xml:                                <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s</endpoint-url>
WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/webscript-framework-config.xml:                        <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/php</endpoint-url>    
wsdl/authoring-service.wsdl:         <wsdlsoap:address location="http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/AuthoringService'/>
wsdl/access-control-service.wsdl:          <wsdlsoap:address location="http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/AccessControlService'/>
wsdl/dictionary-service.wsdl:         <wsdlsoap:address location="http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/DictionaryService'/>
wsdl/action-service.wsdl:          <wsdlsoap:address location="http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/ActionService'/>
wsdl/repository-service.wsdl:         <wsdlsoap:address location="http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/RepositoryService'/>
wsdl/authentication-service.wsdl:         <wsdlsoap:address location="http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/AuthenticationService'/>
wsdl/administration-service.wsdl:          <wsdlsoap:address location="http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/AdministrationService'/>
wsdl/content-service.wsdl:         <wsdlsoap:address location="http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/ContentService'/>
wsdl/classification-service.wsdl:         <wsdlsoap:address location="http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/ClassificationService'/>
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Including the really problematic ones like: http://localhost:8080${url.serviceContext}${uri}

My question is - should I modify all endpoints and hope for this setup not to fall apart, or should I search for other solution when I will still have localhost:8080/alfresco available (but in this case I don't know how to make it availavle under mydomain.com instead of mydomain.com/alfresco

Thanks,
Maciej

[gronfelt]

I'm not quite sure this is what you are looking for, but I presented an Apache configuration in this thread, that might be of use:

http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=22176

Combining mod_jk and mod_rewrite, it allows users to access Alfresco and Share on two different domains, without needing to add the /alfresco and /share respectively (it will appended by Apache).

It works this way:

1. The user enters http://www.myalfrescodomain.com in the browser
2. Apache checks if there's a /alfresco in the URL and since there's not, that's appended
3. Apache receives the new URL (myalfrescodomain.com/alfresco), this time it passes the check
4. Apache forwards the request to Tomcat with mod_jk.

I don't know if that solves your problem?

[mike54]

hello gronfelt, nice to see you again

Yes, that is something that I was planning to do, but your previous post made it simpler
It is not as beautiful as I would like it to be (like it is with my Share site) but is works well and I will leave it that way.
The good thing is that I don't have to mess with alfresco endpoints.