Raj, Good advice. I think I will try this one, sometime this week. Thank you a lot.
On Wed Aug 03,2011 07:31 pm, Raj Saini wrote: > Mansour, > > I would suggest you to create a separate virtual host e.g. > admin.mydomain.com or erp.mydomain.com for other OFbiz applications. > Within that virtual host, you can rewrite the URLs like: > > RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ ajp://localhost:8009/$1 [P,L] > > > > And you will be able to access your applications like > http://admin.mydomain.com/catalog/control/main > > Thanks, > > Raj > > PS: My previous example was missing the [P,L]. This is needed to > indicate that this request is a proxy and once matched not to go to next > directive. You can find more about this in mod_rewrite guide. > > > > On Wednesday 03 August 2011 05:05 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: > > Great work, Raj ! > > One last question, what would this do with requests to other ofbiz > > components? For example http://www.yourdomain.com/myportal or > > http://www.yourdomain.com/projectmgr ? > > > > What about other images under other components ? > > > > I will try your suggestion soon. > > > > > > > > On Wed Aug 03,2011 04:52 pm, Raj Saini wrote: > >> What you can do is: > >> > >> 1. Mount your application in OFbiz as "YourApp" and not root. > >> 2. Create a virtual host in the Apache Web server or use the default one > >> if you have just one. > >> 3. You can copy the static contents to the document root of the virtual > >> host. > >> 4. Use AJP proxy to map your root request to "YourApp". For example, > >> Apache will forward all requests coming at > >> http://www.yourdomain.com/ to ajp://localhost:8080/yourapp/ and you can > >> copy your images to the document root of the your virtual host. In your > >> virtual host proxy mapping you can exclude the static contents such as > >> your images. I generally use mod_rewirte and below is a simple example: > >> > >> RewriteCond /srv/www/yourdomain/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f > >> RewriteCond /srv/www/yourdomain//%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d > >> RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ ajp://localhost:8009/yourapp/control/$1 > >> > >> This directive says, if the last part of URL is not a physical file or > >> directory on filesystem, forward it to OFBiz, else serve it from file > >> system. If you copy your images to the document root and above > >> conditions hold false, they will be served by Apache Web sever. > >> > >> You can still access other OFbiz application using 9443 port, or create > >> their own virtual hosts or use a single virtual host to serve them. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Raj > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Wednesday 03 August 2011 04:36 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: > >>> Hello Raj, > >>> > >>> And thank you for the explaination. I totally understand this from > >>> Bilgin reply. I didn't think of it, until he reminded me there's an > >>> "image" component. But I am interested to see other solutions. > >>> With regard to you suggestion, I have the web application already > >>> deployed and it works with or without ofbiz. But how would configuring > >>> apache server help in solving the issue of accessing static contents > >>> under myApplication. Assuming the I will foward all the requests on port > >>> 80 to port 8080, and 443 to 8443, how would this solve the issue ? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Wed Aug 03,2011 04:12 pm, Raj Saini wrote: > >>>> Your problem is OFBiz image application is conflicting with the image > >>>> folder of your root application. One way to solve this is to use Apache > >>>> Web server to front your OFbiz instance. This way, you can serve the > >>>> images statically and few people claim it is faster to serve static > >>>> contents using Apache Web server than servlet engines like Tomcat. This > >>>> way, you can also easily have multiple domain serving applications from > >>>> single instance of OFbiz. > >>>> > >>>> If you want to go this way, you will need mod_proxy and mod_proxy_ajp > >>>> and configure your Apache web server. There are instructions on wiki > >>>> that you can search. > >>>> > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> > >>>> Raj > >>>> > >>>> On Wednesday 03 August 2011 03:22 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: > >>>>> Hardik, > >>>>> can you please kindly elaborate ? > >>>>> What are the parameters that I can pass through ofbiz startup scripts to > >>>>> fix this issue? > >>>>> I have the application in hot-deploy already. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> On Wed Aug 03,2011 02:27 pm, Hardik Handa wrote: > >>>>>> What I would prefer is to keep the application in hot deploy folder > >>>>>> and pass the parameter to the startup file for the external > >>>>>> application into the startupofbiz.bat , this would lead to the > >>>>>> external application to start whenever you start Ofbiz. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Cheers, > >>>>>> Hardik Handa > >>>>>> hardik.ha...@hcl.com > >>>>>> > >>>>>> -----Original Message----- > >>>>>> From: Bilgin Ibryam [mailto:bibr...@gmail.com] > >>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 2:20 PM > >>>>>> To: user@ofbiz.apache.org > >>>>>> Subject: Re: Accessing images from external application > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I had a similar problem and if I remember right, the problem was that > >>>>>> images folder inside my custom app was confused with images > >>>>>> application existing in framework. The solution I found was to rename > >>>>>> images folder inside my custom app. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> HTH > >>>>>> Bilgin Ibryam > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Mansour Al Akeel > >>>>>> <mansour.alak...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>>>>> I have a web application that I need to run on the same server as > >>>>>>> ofbiz. > >>>>>>> The choices I have are either to deploy ofbiz to an external server > >>>>>>> (tomcat or geronimo) and deploy my other webapp to the same server, > >>>>>>> or deploy the application under ofbiz and get the built-in servlet > >>>>>>> container to serve the requests. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> I found what I am trying to do is described in this document > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Load+OpenI+%28Mondrian+Implementation%29+under+OFBiz > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> I deployed my web application following this document. However, when I > >>>>>>> mount the application on something like (mount-point="/myApplicaiton") > >>>>>>> everything works fine. But when I make it the default application and > >>>>>>> mount it on ( mount-point="/"), I don't see the images on the pages. > >>>>>>> css files are served properly, but not images ! > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> The error I get when I try to browse to the image URL > >>>>>>> is error 404. For example, http://localhost:8080/images/lines.png will > >>>>>>> result in error 404 only when the application is mounted on "/". > >>>>>>> If I mount the same application on "/myApplication" and access it with > >>>>>>> http://localhost:8080/myApplication/images/lines.png it will work > >>>>>>> fine ! > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Is there any additional configuration I need to do to get the images > >>>>>>> to > >>>>>>> display properly ? > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Thank you in advance. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> ::DISCLAIMER:: > >>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>>> > >>>>>> The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and > >>>>>> intended for the named recipient(s) only. > >>>>>> It shall not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its > >>>>>> affiliates. 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