[Using Sakai] is some one using sakai in a reverse proxy

[Tapas Mishra]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Sean Keesler
<sean.keesler at threecanoes.com> wrote:
> I am using mod_proxy to simply run multiple tomcats (each with
> different port numbers - 8080, 8081, 8082) on one box (for testing)
> while still exposing only port 80 to the outside.  I am just passing
> through the normal URL's and am not rewriting them, as you are trying
> to do.

I am not using any ReWriteRule I just dropped the binary of 2.7 in
CATALINA_HOME and now I am trying this to be available to users on
internet which will reach it via port 80
when they type http://mydomain.com/sakai

for this the Front end server which is physically different than where
sakai is actually present



Following ASCII Chart will explain my scenario

                                                    |-------another
server on lan where sakai is accessible as
http://192.168.1.5:8080/portal
                                                    |
Server A--------------------------------------  |
(Public IP)                                     |
                                                    |
                                                    |


Now on Server A in above diagram
in Apache vhost definition I have following



ProxyPass /sakai http://192.168.1.5:8080/portal
ProxyPassReverse /sakai http://192.168.1.5:8080/portal


so that sakai on  http://192.168.1.5:8080/portal

is served.

Is this wrong ?

I found that CSS and Javascripts are broken when users from internet
are trying to reach with above configuration
While on LAN there is no problem.


I checked headers in client browser from internet

When a user on internet types in browser http://mydomain.com/sakai

I found some page elements generated urls as

http://mydomain.com/library

and not http://mydomain.com/sakai/path/to/css

to which there is no ProxyPass on Server A so I asked as how many more
URLs sakai applications is generating which are not starting from
/portal and some thing else

since if I include those in ProxyPass rules it is accessible .
But I do not know how many more.

There is no ReWriteRule and no change to any default configuration of sakai
I do not want to increase my work.

You can check this behaviour of sakai in the response via HTTP_LIVE an
add on for firefox
and see the Headers of response


-- 
Tapas