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 ?
>>
>

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