[opencms-dev] Rename opencms servlet to /

[Yves Glodt]

On Wednesday 15 July 2009, Achim Westermann wrote:
> Hi Yves,
>
> thank you for self - replying, this may be useful for the community!
> I did neither know or think this is possible nor try to do it (always
> used the ROOT context in Tomcat for removing the context part and
> mod_rewrite in apache for getting rid of the servlet name).
>
> I don't speak chinese but I'd be happy if this would be translated to
> english and posted to opencms-wiki.org to be shared and polished by a
> larger community.

Hello Achim and list,

This is what I did as of now:
http://www.opencms-wiki.org/Removing_the_/opencms/opencms_prefix_without_using_Apache

Please feel very free to correct/rename/improve it... :-)

Best regards,
Yves

> Kind Regards,
> Achim.
>
> -------------------
> Achim Westermann
>
> Alkacon Software GmbH  - The OpenCms Experts
> http://www.alkacon.com - http://www.opencms.org
>
> Yves Glodt wrote:
> > I self reply again...
> >
> > I found no way making OpenCms work with /* as path for the
> > OpenCmsServlet. Then urlrewrite came into my mind and I found this:
> >
> > http://www.tangmonk.com/km/removeOpencmsPrefix.html
> >
> > and it works AFAICS
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > On Wednesday 15 July 2009, Yves Glodt wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have a situation where Tomcat6/win64 is in a DMZ behind an
> >> Microsoft ISA, and I can not use a front-apache httpd. I use
> >> opencms 7.5-jpa with Firebird 2.1.
> >>
> >> Now the old story: I need to remove the /opencms/opencms prefix.
> >> The first one I got rid of by installing as ROOT,war
> >>
> >> I managed to rename the second /opencms to /web, and it works as
> >> well. But as soon as I name it / I get 404 errors.
> >>
> >> What I did is:
> >> 1. Changed the <context-param> called "OpenCmsServlet" from
> >> "/opencms/*" to "/*" 2. Changed the <servlet-mapping> for
> >> "OpenCmsServlet" from "/opencms/*" to "/*" and nothing else.
> >> opencms-importexport was not touched.
> >>
> >>
> >> Are there some special steps to take to rename the
> >> opencms-servlet?
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance and best regards,
> >> Yves