Hello
I am a newbie as far as jboss server, portals and web applications are
concerned. I need some help making a jboss portal accessible from the internet
with my own domain (for example www.myTestDomain.de).
Registration and installation:
- I registered a dynamic host at dyndns.com and a domain at united-domains.de.
- I installed jboss Server 4.0.3SP1 (default port 8080), mySql 4.1 and the
jboss portal 2.2 (binary). With http://localhost:8080; i can see the
startpage of the jboss app-server. With http://localhost:8080/portal; i can
see the startpage of the JBoss portal.
Steps, i tried to make the portal accessible with www.myTestDomain.de:
1) I changed the port for the JBoss app server from 8080 to 80 in the
server.xml file in jboss-home\server\default\deploy\jbossweb-tomcat55.sar as
described in the Jboss Portal User guide in chapter 3 (customizing your
installation). Now i can see the app-server with http://localhost; or
www.myTestDomain.de and the Portal startpage with http://localhost/portal;
or with www.myTestDomain.de/portal. (I had a similar effect, when i changed
the settings in my router instead: Redirecting incoming requests from port 80
to port 8080).
Access from the internet worked, but the user had still to type in
www.myTestDomain.de/portal to get access to the portal-page.
2) So i tried to change the context path as described in the portal user guide.
I downloaded the jboss portal sources instead of the binaries for this task. I
changed the following entry in the local.properties file in the build directory:
# Context root for the portal main servlet
portal.web.context-root=/portal -- portal.web.context-root=/somethingother
After redeploying it with build -d - as described in another thread - and
restarting the server, there was no effect on the context path. It was still
www.myTestDomain.de/portal. I think, i have to learn more about deploying
with ant and so on to understand this first.
3) Another idea of me was to use a reverse proxy (did i mention, that i never
installed a webserver before): I changed the port of the JBoss App-Server back
to its default
8080 again. Then i installed apache 2.0 on windows XP and could see the apache
startpage with http://localhost; (standard port 80) or with
www.myTestDomain.de.
I added the following lines to the apache configuration file httpd in the
virtual hosts section:
NameVirtualHost *
VirtualHost *
ServerName www.myTestDomain.de
ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/portal
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/portal
Further i removed the # from the lines:
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
to activate the proxy-modules. But i didn't work as i hoped: when i typed
www.myTestDomain.de into the browser i got a page, that seemed to be the
JBoss Portal start page without pictures (only text was visible) and without
any working links.
4) This last approach worked: I registered a second domain at united-domains
and redirected it at their homepage to www.myTestDomain.de/portal. Thus i can
see my portal.
Of couse i am still interested in the correct, easy and secure !!! way to do
this with one domain. I hope, i gave some usefull hints for other newbies.
greetings Christian
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