[Engine-devel] [Users] base url of ovirt

[Juan Hernandez]

On 09/19/2012 10:19 AM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Juan Hernandez" <jhernand at redhat.com>
>> To: "Jon Thomas" <jthomas at redhat.com>
>> Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org, users at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 11:08:26 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Users] base url of ovirt
>>
>> Copying engine-devel, as I think this is something we should discuss
>> and
>> maybe do.
>>
>> On 09/18/2012 10:50 PM, Jon Thomas wrote:
>>> Is there some config in the engine to set up the web interface base
>>> url
>>> so that instead of https://localhost.localdomain/ it is
>>> https://localhost.localdomain/ovirt ?
>>
>> No, there is no such config.
>>
>> I think this should be the default, I mean, we should have this
>> /ovirt
>> prefix in all our URLs, to make coexistence with other users of the
>> web
>> server easy.
> 
> Totally agree.
> 
> We discussed that, Itamar agreed to go ahead URL change for ovirt-engine-4.0...
> 
> Moving namespace out of root provides many advantages including including simpler apache configuration, easier to use proxies, ability to host multiple applications.
> 
> Alon.

Jon, as you see this will probably go in release 4.0, which is the
future. Meanwhile if what you need is to use the web server with other
applications you could try to replace the directives in
/etc/httpd/conf.d/ovirt-engine.conf with the following:

ProxyPassMatch ^/(ca.crt|engine.ssh.key.txt)$ ajp://localhost:8009/$1
ProxyPassMatch ^/(api|webadmin|UserPortal|OvirtEngineWeb)(/.*)?$
ajp://localhost:8009/$1$2

That will change your configuration so that only the URLs that are
really required for the engine will be redirected to it. A notable
exception will be the welcome page, but you probably can live without
it, just use the following to get to the UI:

https://whatever.example.com/webadmin
https://whatever.example.com/UserPortal

Take into account that ProxyPassMatch directives are processed in the
order they appear, so if you have another application with conflicting
ProxyPassMatch directives the result can be unexpected.

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