<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi David,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Now, I have to say it is a workout indeed to make the site to work the way you want it.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>By default, if you do a standard installation of OpenCms you will end up with two 'opencms' i.e <A href="http://localhost:8080/opencms/opencms/">http://localhost:8080/opencms/opencms/</A><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>To get around this you will need to do several things; you can use mod_proxy via apache to lose one of them and you can install opencms as the ROOT folder in tomcat. This method you can find it in OpenCms documentation, just do a search in google or look into your installed copy for documentation. This, I tried and works just fine. (this is a url of someone's apache config Howto using mod_proxy if you can't find it or don't have an opencms installation up and running <A href="http://195.14.236.181/opencms/opencms/alkacon-documentation/howto_apache_httpd/mod_proxy.html">http://195.14.236.181/opencms/opencms/alkacon-documentation/howto_apache_httpd/mod_proxy.html</A>)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The other method you can use and you would not need to install opencms as ROOT in tomcat you can find at this url <A href="http://opencms-forum.de/opencms-forum/viewthread?thread=1990">http://opencms-forum.de/opencms-forum/viewthread?thread=1990</A></DIV><DIV>however, I have not used it and do not know if it actually works or not.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hope this info is helpful.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers</DIV><DIV>____</DIV><DIV>Gaith Bader</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Computer Systems Officer</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">School of Computer Science and Engineering</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The University of New South Wales</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 27/10/2006, at 2:44 AM, David Dyer wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Christoph Schönfeld wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><site server="<A href="http://localhost:8080">http://localhost:8080</A>" uri="/sites/default/"/></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><site server="<A href="http://localhost:8080">http://localhost:8080</A>" uri="/sites/www/"/></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I suspect that the two identical server attributes conflict with each other.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Provided that this is true, you will need to decide which site should be available at this URL.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Christoph</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This mail is sent to you from the opencms-dev mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To change your list options, or to unsubscribe from the list, please visit</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.opencms.org/mailman/listinfo/opencms-dev">http://lists.opencms.org/mailman/listinfo/opencms-dev</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Is there a document describing how this should be done or are we trying to do something that is not the right way to go?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I notice that a lot of CMS sites have urls that look like <A href="http://www.somedomain.tld:8080/opencms/site">www.somedomain.tld:8080/opencms/site</A> rather than just <A href="http://www.somedomain.tld:8080/site">www.somedomain.tld:8080/site</A> which looks a bit more standard. In the end I will probably mod_proxy the site with Apache to let the user type <A href="http://www.somedomain.tld">www.somedomain.tld</A> to get to the user site and perhaps have openCMS.somedomain.tld point to the OpenCMS mantenance application.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The "official documentation" that we have found is not very clear about how to start a site and how to structure a CMS application. I guess that we are also having trouble figuring out how the development process (using localhost) should be done so that a real site can be created which can be uploaded in some simple way to a production server.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">In the development process it is nice to have all of the OpenCMS stuff available through the GUI but in the end we need to be able to take something and put it on another server to run a production web site.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have not found any document that describes how this is best done with OpenCMS.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">David Dyer</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Artifact Software Inc.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:ddyer@artifact-software.com">ddyer@artifact-software.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(514) 995-2830</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This mail is sent to you from the opencms-dev mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To change your list options, or to unsubscribe from the list, please visit</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.opencms.org/mailman/listinfo/opencms-dev">http://lists.opencms.org/mailman/listinfo/opencms-dev</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>