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

[Jon Thomas]

On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 16:40 +0200, Juan Hernandez wrote:
> On 09/20/2012 04:36 PM, Jon Thomas wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 10:53 +0200, Juan Hernandez wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > Thx, that worked better than what I was trying. BTW, I still get the
> > welcome page. I also had to add
> > 
> > WSGIScriptAlias /auth/login /usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/wsgi/django.wsgi
> > 
> > to openstack-dashboard.conf for dashboard to work.
> 
> It is strange that you still get the welcome page, you shouldn't. Maybe
> it is in your browser's cache. Try to reload it.

So it's at http://localhost:8080/ and the default fedora test page is at
http://localhost

> 
> Take into account that I may have missed some of the required URLs. I
> would really appreciate if you report back here if you have any further
> problem.