[opencms-dev] FIXED Re: Error accessing "Current projects" in the admin view

[Robert Burén]

Hmm... I thought I'd reply to my own question here, for the archive's sake.

The problem came from the fact that both www.bluefish.se and
bluefish.se points to our site. Out of habit, I only use the
bluefish.se URL, which have always seemed to work. However, the
problem described below only shows when I access bluefish.se but not
www.bluefish.se.

So, I have come to the conclusion that somewhere in the admin UI there
are some generated links to www.bluefish.se, and when my browser tries
to access them, the session cookie is wrong (since it it associated
with bluefish.se). The effect is that I appear to be logged in for
most pages, but not for all.

The solution (at least for me): use the www.bluefish.se URL when using
the admin UI....

/Robert



On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:45:36 +0100, Robert Burén <robert.buren at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We're running our site on opencms 5.0.1, and I have configured an
> apache reverse proxy to remove all traces of opencms in the urls. I
> mention this because I suspect that this is relevant for the
> problem... See my http.conf settings at the end of this mail.
> 
> Everything has been running fine now for a couple of weeks. I've made
> a few updates of pages but nothing major yet.
> 
> Today, when I tried Project Management -> Current projects, and
> clicked on "offline" which is out only project, I got an error.
> Internet Explorer just shows an empty view, but clicking the error
> icon in the status bar gives the following info:
> 
> Line: 6
> Char: 1
> Error: Permission denied
> Code: 0
> URL: http://www.bluefish.se/opencms/system/workplace/administration/project/currentprojects/administration_content_projectresent_files.html?projectid=4
> 
> The strange thing is that when I try to do the same thing in Firefox I
> get a realm login prompt when I click on "Current projects", with the
> prompt 'Enter username and password for "OpenCms" at
> http://www.bluefish.se:80' (Note the casing of OpenCms.) Of course, I
> haven't explicitly set up an OpenCms realm neither in Apache nor in
> Tomcat, so I don't know what's happening. I do suspect that it is the
> same problem, but with different symptoms, but I don't know.
> 
> Now, as I said, I suspect that it has _something_ to do with my
> reverse proxy in apache, but I'm quite possibly totally wrong. As you
> can see below, I map the paths beginning with /opencms, /resources and
> /export to the same on my tomcat instance, and everything else is
> mapped to /opencms. Did I miss anything here?
> 
> Anyone has another idea of what the problem might be?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Robert
> 
> Apache httpd.conf snippet:
> <VirtualHost 213.80.63.97>
> ServerName www.bluefish.se
> ServerAlias bluefish.se
> UseCanonicalName off
> NoCache *
> ProxyPass /opencms/ http://leia.bluefish.se:8099/opencms/
> ProxyPass /resources/ http://leia.bluefish.se:8099/resources/
> ProxyPass /export/ http://leia.bluefish.se:8099/export/
> ProxyPass / http://leia.bluefish.se:8099/opencms/
> ProxyPassReverse / http://leia.bluefish.se:8099/opencms/
> </VirtualHost>
>