Fronting LiveSite Display Services with Apache

We are starting to set up LiveSite Display Services and I can't find in the manuals any information on fronting LSDS with Apache web server.

Our environment is set such that all requests come in to an Apache web server. What we want is all requests except .page files will be processed by Apache itself. .page URLs need to be passed off to and serviced serviced by LSDS.

Can anyone lend me an Apache config statement to direct .page requests to LS. The LSDS server is not directly reachable (firewall) so a 302 back to the browser on a different port won't work.

If the answer is Read the manuals...Please let me know which manual and which section. I've looked.

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Rick Poulin

It's not in the iwov manuals because it has nothing to do with iwov.

What you want to do is configure Apache to serve your local static resources from a docroot as always, and then use ProxyPassMatch+ProxyPassReverse (mod_proxy) or RewriteRule with the

flag + ProxyPassReverse so that you forward .*\.page to your LiveSite server (mod_proxy+mod_rewrite).

Something like this:


# Send .page requests to livesite server
ProxyPassMatch (.*\.page.*) http://livesite:1776/$1
# Rewrite HTTP headers coming back from livesite so that end-users are none the wiser
ProxyPassReverse .* http://livesite:1776/

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nipper

In addition, you may want to get creative to serve assets from Apache rather than TomCat. Lighten the load.

That being said, walk before you can run.

Bowker

we intend to leave all static content (gif, pdf, ...) on the Apache server and only send livesite pages over to the livesite server.

But walking before we run is my motto. Thanks.

Crsb

you should also check out http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/webserver_howto/apache.html to learn about tomcat connector and how you can configure it with apache web server.

Bowker

ProxyPassMatch requires Apache v2.2.5+ and we are not there yet

However - I did find that this works

RewriteRule ^([^.]*)$ http://localhost:1776/SITE$1?%{QUERY_STRING}

RewriteRule ^(.*\.page.*)$ http://localhost:1776/SITE$1?%{QUERY_STRING}

Replacing SITE with our site name from SharePoint.

Thanks to all

Rick Poulin

ProxyPassMatch requires Apache v2.2.5+ and we are not there yet

FYI, It's called ProxyMatch in versions pre-2.2, but it's there. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxymatch

Migrateduser

Hi,

You may want to add *.ajax to that list of rules if you plan on using the $AJAX_URL functionality in your components.

Regards,

James