I’ll be at Google Developer Day 2008 Paris on Thursday. It will be the opportunity to see some friends and get a hands-on update on some cool Google stuff like the App Engine and GWT. Everyone has been asked to download all the toolkits and to bring their laptop (and power adapter). Hope to see you there !
I’ll post some pics of the event here on Thursday.
If you are in France in October you will surely have the occasion to join the French and francophone agile community in one of the many cities where the Agile Tour 2008 will be held on:
- 01 octobre : Besançon
- 03 octobre : Mulhouse
- 06 octobre : Genève
- 09 octobre : Grenoble
- 14 octobre : Lille
- 16 octobre : Toulouse
- 23 octobre : Valence
This new initiative has been organized by a lot of good people doing a lot of hard work. My friends at Ekito are participating in the Toulouse event on October 16th and I bet they will be showing some of their work on the IceScrum project…
If you’re in town, don’t miss the opportunity to mingle and share your experience and insights with the agile community in France !
I have always been peskered by my lack of knowledge in setting up a virtual host setup in apache that would allow me to hide the name of a webapp in a proxied tomcat server. After looking for a way to do this right with mod_proxy + mod_rewrite + ext_filter I finally came up with a simple way of doing this that involves not only apache’s site configuration but some tweaking of tomcat’s configuration as well.
What I want, let’s say for Pilango’s XWiki instance is to use URL’s like:
http://xwiki.pilango.com/bin/view/Main/
instead of repeating xwiki in the url as will happen with a default tomcat configuration:
http://xwiki.pilango.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main
I ended up also taking partial advantage of XWiki’s Short URL capabilities by setting
xwiki.showviewaction=0
In XWiki’s xwiki.cfg file and now have URL’s like this:
http://xwiki.pilango.com/bin/Main
Here’s how I did it !
My apache site file:
NameVirtualHost *:80 <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName xwiki.pilango.com <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Proxy> ProxyRequests Off ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyPass / http://localhost:8081/ ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8081/ </VirtualHost>
Part of tomcat’s server.xml file that declares a dedicated service for the xwiki instance as the ROOT webapp which is done by the path=”" attribute in the Context element.
<Service name="xwiki">
<Connector port="8081" proxyName="xwiki.pilango.com" proxyPort="80" />
<Engine name="xwiki" defaultHost="localhost">
<Host name="localhost" appBase="/home/tomcat"
unpackWars="false" autoDeploy="false"
xmlValidation="false" xmlNamspaceAware="false">
<Context docBase="/home/tomcat/xwiki" override="true" path="" />
</Host>
</Engine>
</Service>
Et voilà !
I love this presentation from 37signals David Heinemeier Hansson:
David’s point is very much applicable to Pilango’s evolving story… Thanks to Matt Asay’s post on the Open Road for pointing this out.
