Question about Iliad access urls/adresses

Hi Steven,

You may also need to rewrite Iliad's URLs to match your vhost settings.
The idea is that an Iliad app is reachable at /foo (its path). Your
vhost must redirect incoming url to /foo/(.*). On the other hand, your
website is available at http://mysite.com , so Iliad must rewrite urls
to match the vhost.

Example:
-> generated urls look like this: http://mysite.com/...
-> incoming request http://mysite.com/ on a click on a generated link
-> proxy to http://localhost:PORT/foo to your Iliad app

That can be done with ILUrlBuilder>>addRewriteRule:. It takes a one arg
block as parameter.

With GST, To put the counter example to http://mysite.com, I would do
something like this:

Iliad.ILUrlBuilder addRewriteRule: [:string |
   string copyReplaceAllRegex: '^\/' with: 'http://mysite.com'].

To reach an Iliad app with a specific path (let's say
'examples/counters') to '/', add another rewrite rule:

Iliad.ILUrlBuilder addRewriteRule: [:string |
   string
       copyReplaceAllRegex: 'http://mysite.com/examples/counters'
       with: 'http://mysite.com']

With this, Iliad will write correct URLs that match the vhost for you.

Then the vhost part in Apache looks like this:

<VirtualHost>

   #Serve all static files from this directory
   <Directory /var/www/static/files>
       Order deny,allow
       Allow from all
   </Directory>

   ServerName mysite.com
   DocumentRoot /var/www/static/files

   RewriteEngine On

   #Proxy to Iliad if no static file was found
   RewriteCond /var/www/static/files/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://localhost:PORT/examples/counters/$1
[proxy,last]

</VirtualHost>

HTH,
Nico

Le dimanche 31 octobre 2010 à 23:20 +0100, Stefan Schmiedl a écrit :

> Am 31.10.2010 18:48, schrieb Steven Costiou:
> > Hi,
> > I have a small question.
> >
> > I'm looking for a way to redirect a specific domain name, like
> > "www.mydomain.com" to an Iliad application adress, like
> > "http://myServerIp:myPort/myApp/myController/whatever".
>
> If you want to redirect to a complete URL instead of "just" a virtual
> host, you'll probably
> need to do some rewriting in the webserver handling www.mydomain.com.
> Search for
> (reverse) proxy in your webserver's docs.
>
> >
> > How can i do that ? Is that even easily possible ?
>
> Sure. IIRC there are lots of examples floating around.
>
> >
> > By the way, it may not be the best place to ask, but i'm using an
> > apache server to host my Iliad applications data, and i've not been
> > able yet to authorize access from the outside (Fedora 13 64bits).
> > Anyone knows how to do that ? To be more specific, local access
> > works, but the server is not reachable from an external client (i
> > guess its a question of firewalls and/or port configurations but i
> > know nothing about that stuff).
>
> check with "netstat -lpnt" on which ip addresses and ports your web
> server is listening
> if it is listening on a "local" address like 127.0.0.1 or 192.168.1.1
> or 10.0.1.1, you'll
> need to add a "Listen {external ip address}" to the configuration or
> bribe your firewall
> admin to do some port forwarding magic.
>
> if netstat reports "0.0.0.0" or "::" as IP addresses, your server
> should be reachable
> from the world; if it is not, bribe your firewall's sysadmin to plow a
> route for you.
>
> anyways, bribing your local firewall admin is always a good idea :-)
>
> s.