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Posted to dev@wookie.apache.org by "Gav..." <ga...@16degrees.com.au> on 2010/04/02 06:29:14 UTC
RE: Wookie VM
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Nisbet [mailto:S.Nisbet@mmu.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2010 6:30 PM
> To: wookie-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Wookie VM
>
> Gav,
> can you perhaps catch it with mod_rewrite at some point?
I found that a bit hard to do at this point. I'd need to rewrite
all /wookie/* requests for one running instance whilst ignoring
it for the other one, then proxypass the results. I haven't worked
out how to do that yet.
For the Tomcat instance, I did try renaming the context path used and
it did come up when deployed to that context, however there are so many
more urls tied to /wookie that it breaks a lot of things.
So I do feel that the url /wookie should be configurable, tieing
in a product name is never a good idea imo, there are always those that
will want to anonymise their instance. We obviously don't want to anonymise
our instances but it does make it difficult to run two instances side by
side
if we want friendly urls.
You may feel this is not worth fixing just for the demos, so that is fine.
What I have done is simplify it and just made both urls continue to use
their
respective port numbers. And, I have added a basic index page with links to
each demo instance.
http://wookie-vm.apache.org
This may suffice, may not, up to you guys, let me know.
(We can customise the basic index page at any time)
Gav...
>
> best
>
> Steve
>
> Learning Resource Manager
> Learning & Research Technologies
> LRIS
> Manchester Metropolitan University
>
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>
> >>> "Gav..." <ga...@16degrees.com.au> 31/03/2010 06:31 >>>
> Ok,
>
> So , I have the Wookie VM up and running.
>
> I also have 2 instances of wookie running.
>
> The first:
>
> http://wookie-vm.apache.org/wookie/
>
> Is the default derby/jetty built in running on port 8080
> (and mapped with ProxyPass so it doesn't need :8080 in
> the final url)
>
> The second:
>
> http://wookie-vm.apache.org:8090/wookie/
>
> Is running on MySQL 5.1 and Tomcat 6.0.26 on port 8090
> due to the fact wookie hard codes the /wookie path on
> the end I cant map that one with ProxyPass unless the
> /wookie path can be changed - what is involved in
> changing that - can we make it a configurable property?
>
> I still have a few admin stuff to perform on the VM to make
> things easier to maintain and run. Any wookie committer that
> wants to volunteer to maintain the VM please let me know and
> I'll create you an account.
>
> I'll have other questions later, in the meantime just thought I'd
> let you know they are running.
>
> Gav...
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gav... [mailto:gavin@16degrees.com.au]
> > Sent: Saturday, 27 March 2010 11:27 AM
> > To: wookie-dev@incubator.apache.org
> > Subject: RE: Wookie VM
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ross Gardler [mailto:rgardler@apache.org]
> > > Sent: Friday, 26 March 2010 1:22 AM
> > > To: wookie-dev@incubator.apache.org
> > > Subject: Re: Wookie VM
> > >
> > > On 25/03/2010 11:00, Gav... wrote:
> > > > With all the Ubuntu issues (seemingly) , would it benefit if I
> > > created an
> > > > Ubuntu VM for you guys to set up a demo with? and can then check
> > out
> > > these
> > > > issues and also tweak to get a perfect setup that can then be
> > > documented.
> > > >
> > > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > >
> > > Gav - you know better than to ask a question like that ;-)
> > >
> > > Get on with it*
> >
> > :)
> >
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-2576
> >
> > Will have a look soon.
> >
> > Gav...
> >
> > >
> > > Ross
> > >
> > > *Note to others, Gav and I have a long history with one another
> here,
> > I
> > > can talk to him like that - honest, he's smiling and cursing me at
> > the
> > > same time ;-)
> >
>
>
Re: Wookie VM
Posted by Scott Wilson <sc...@gmail.com>.
On 2 Apr 2010, at 05:29, Gav... wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Steve Nisbet [mailto:S.Nisbet@mmu.ac.uk]
>> Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2010 6:30 PM
>> To: wookie-dev@incubator.apache.org
>> Subject: RE: Wookie VM
>>
>> Gav,
>> can you perhaps catch it with mod_rewrite at some point?
>
> I found that a bit hard to do at this point. I'd need to rewrite
> all /wookie/* requests for one running instance whilst ignoring
> it for the other one, then proxypass the results. I haven't worked
> out how to do that yet.
>
> For the Tomcat instance, I did try renaming the context path used and
> it did come up when deployed to that context, however there are so many
> more urls tied to /wookie that it breaks a lot of things.
>
> So I do feel that the url /wookie should be configurable, tieing
> in a product name is never a good idea imo, there are always those that
> will want to anonymise their instance. We obviously don't want to anonymise
> our instances but it does make it difficult to run two instances side by
> side
> if we want friendly urls.
Definitely agree - I'm not sure "/wookie" gets hardcoded into anything important, though. It just uses the current servlet context, so if you deploy it in a folder with a different name it should just use that. However you can't remove the servlet context entirely without url rewriting (unless of course you just deploy it in tomcat's ROOT context.)
There used to be a few hardcoded "/wookie" things but I removed them all a few weeks back. The only ones left I could find are:
1. index.html redirects to /wookie/webmenu/WidgetWebMenuServlet?operation=INDEX (there is probably a better way of doing this anyway)
2. in the JSP pages there are a few hard-coded absolute URLs to shared scripts here and there that need fixing
>
> You may feel this is not worth fixing just for the demos, so that is fine.
> What I have done is simplify it and just made both urls continue to use
> their
> respective port numbers. And, I have added a basic index page with links to
> each demo instance.
>
> http://wookie-vm.apache.org
>
> This may suffice, may not, up to you guys, let me know.
>
> (We can customise the basic index page at any time)
>
> Gav...
>
>>
>> best
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> Learning Resource Manager
>> Learning & Research Technologies
>> LRIS
>> Manchester Metropolitan University
>>
>> Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read
>> the
>> Manchester Metropolitan University's email disclaimer available on its
>> website
>> http://www.mmu.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer
>>
>>
>>>>> "Gav..." <ga...@16degrees.com.au> 31/03/2010 06:31 >>>
>> Ok,
>>
>> So , I have the Wookie VM up and running.
>>
>> I also have 2 instances of wookie running.
>>
>> The first:
>>
>> http://wookie-vm.apache.org/wookie/
>>
>> Is the default derby/jetty built in running on port 8080
>> (and mapped with ProxyPass so it doesn't need :8080 in
>> the final url)
>>
>> The second:
>>
>> http://wookie-vm.apache.org:8090/wookie/
>>
>> Is running on MySQL 5.1 and Tomcat 6.0.26 on port 8090
>> due to the fact wookie hard codes the /wookie path on
>> the end I cant map that one with ProxyPass unless the
>> /wookie path can be changed - what is involved in
>> changing that - can we make it a configurable property?
>>
>> I still have a few admin stuff to perform on the VM to make
>> things easier to maintain and run. Any wookie committer that
>> wants to volunteer to maintain the VM please let me know and
>> I'll create you an account.
>>
>> I'll have other questions later, in the meantime just thought I'd
>> let you know they are running.
>>
>> Gav...
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Gav... [mailto:gavin@16degrees.com.au]
>>> Sent: Saturday, 27 March 2010 11:27 AM
>>> To: wookie-dev@incubator.apache.org
>>> Subject: RE: Wookie VM
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Ross Gardler [mailto:rgardler@apache.org]
>>>> Sent: Friday, 26 March 2010 1:22 AM
>>>> To: wookie-dev@incubator.apache.org
>>>> Subject: Re: Wookie VM
>>>>
>>>> On 25/03/2010 11:00, Gav... wrote:
>>>>> With all the Ubuntu issues (seemingly) , would it benefit if I
>>>> created an
>>>>> Ubuntu VM for you guys to set up a demo with? and can then check
>>> out
>>>> these
>>>>> issues and also tweak to get a perfect setup that can then be
>>>> documented.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Gav - you know better than to ask a question like that ;-)
>>>>
>>>> Get on with it*
>>>
>>> :)
>>>
>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-2576
>>>
>>> Will have a look soon.
>>>
>>> Gav...
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ross
>>>>
>>>> *Note to others, Gav and I have a long history with one another
>> here,
>>> I
>>>> can talk to him like that - honest, he's smiling and cursing me at
>>> the
>>>> same time ;-)
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>