On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Christopher Dodunski
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have discovered a hidden pattern in the bad URLs served up by
> Tomcat/Roller, which I think may shine light on the matter.
>
> Firstly, regarding the below directives:
>
>    ProxyPass / ajp://127.0.0.1:8009/roller/christopher/
>    ProxyPassReverse / ajp://127.0.0.1:8009/roller/christopher/
>
> I am informed by the boys at Rimu Hosting (my VPS provider) that "The
> proxypass statements do not provide any inherant redirection, in this case
> they merely mask the /roller/christopher location."

I'm not that familiar with ProxyPass or ProxyPassReverse, but I don't
understand why those URLs above include the word '/roller/'. If you
have Roller installed at the root context, you should not need that.

- Dave


> So I selected four of the bad URLs, and pasted them directly into my
> browser.  The resulting '404' error responses (below) reveal discrepancies
> in the paths contained in the URLs compared to the paths displayed in the
> error messages.  Namely, the latter are all preceded by
> "/roller/christopher" which, I'm guessing, is not what we want to see.
>
> http://blog.christopher.net.nz/roller/roller-ui/yui/base/base-min.css
> Sorry! We couldn't find your document
> Status Code     404
> Message         /roller/christopher/roller/roller-ui/yui/base/base-min.css
> Type
> Exception       The file that you requested could not be found on this server.
>
> http://blog.christopher.net.nz/christopher/page/style.css
> Sorry! We couldn't find your document
> Status Code     404
> Message         /roller/christopher/christopher/page/style.css
> Type
> Exception       The file that you requested could not be found on this server.
>
> http://blog.christopher.net.nz/christopher/page/archives
> Sorry! We couldn't find your document
> Status Code     404
> Message         /roller/christopher/christopher/page/archives
> Type
> Exception       The file that you requested could not be found on this server.
>
> http://blog.christopher.net.nz/christopher/feed/entries/atom
> Sorry! We couldn't find your document
> Status Code     404
> Message         /roller/christopher/christopher/feed/entries/atom
> Type
> Exception       The file that you requested could not be found on this server.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris Dodunski.
>
>

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