[opencms-dev] Opencms 7.0.4 and "getting rid of prefix"

[John Weible]

Hi Christoph.

We never used 6.x in production, but started with 7.  We have the same 
issue as you, so if you get any helpful replies off-list, I'd appreciate 
if you could forward them.

We were able to reduce our "/opencms/opencms/" down to just "/cms/" but 
I still want to get rid of that.  A related thing we want to do is 
figure out how to get rid of the "/export/" prefix, probably running our 
exported site on another port.

We use an Apache 2.2 reverse proxy out in front of Tomcat/OpenCms, but 
that only does url simplification in one direction.

So we can map root-level directories in requests to "/cms/..." on the 
back-end with the proxy.  But that doesn't prevent the pages being 
returned from having "/cms/" or "/export/" in all the links. 

John Weible
Manager of IT Infrastructure & Software Development
University Libraries, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
424 Library, MC-522, Urbana, IL 61801
217-244-6300



Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> I'm used to run opencms 6.2.x as a tomcat ROOT application with
> stripped off /opencms/-Prefix and the steps achieving this
> were quite routine.
>
> Now with OpenCms 7.0.3 resp. 7.0.4 I'm stumbling accross some
> difficulties that arose and before trying harder to get OpenCms 7.0.4
> installed and running as a /ROOT application I would like to think about
> not running it under an opencms context and do the rewriting and
> server mapping in another way that is sketched out in other HOWTOs
>
> I don't like the jk_mod method though that Sebastian Himberger
> is suggesting. 
>
> It would be nice if there were an up-to-date document
> for prefix-stripping in OpenCMS 7.0.4 though, anyway.
>
> Comments? Anyone running OpenCms in a ROOT application?
>
>
> --
> Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de
>
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