[Users] Serve webpage on ovirt-engine machine

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "René Koch (ovido)" <r.koch at ovido.at>
> To: "Neil" <nwilson123 at gmail.com>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 12:47:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Serve webpage on ovirt-engine machine
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 11:30 +0200, Neil wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > I realise this probably isn't an oVirt issue, however I would like to
> > ensure making any changes won't affect the access (or running) of my
> > oVirt system.
> > 
> > I'm trying to setup my oVirt engine machine to also run BackupPC
> > however I have to disable the oVirt vhost in apache in order to access
> > the BackupPC web front end on port 80.
> > 
> > Is there a way to safely force the oVirt webadmin to only respond on
> > port 443 so that I can run my BackupPC on port 80? No matter what I've
> > tried so far with my vhosts the apache ajp always redirects all
> > requests to the oVirt web admin login page on port 80 or 443.
> 
> 
> You could either create apache vhosts for your different services or
> just edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/ovirt-engine.conf and exclude your BackupPC
> url from beeing passed to proxy url (add before ProxyPass option).
> e.g (don't know exact BackupPC url, so you have to adapt):
> ProxyPass /backuppc !
> ProxyPass / ajp://localhost:8702/ retry=5 timeout=3600
> 

This is solved by ovirt-engine-3.3 (current master).
We no longer hijack the root of web server, but only the URIs that we use.
The problem is that these URIs are way too generic, but it is a start... of making he ovirt-engine well behaved.

> Hope this helps.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> René
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Thank you, any guidance is appreciated.
> > 
> > Regards.
> > 
> > Neil Wilson.
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