[et-mgmt-tools] changing webdir and ks config file locations in 0.6.0

[Michael DeHaan]

Msquared wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 03:34:20PM -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>
>   
>> There are some places though (koan, templates, etc) that assume some
>> relative http structure exists -- so I'd caution against moving the web
>> dir.  A better question would be, why do you want to move the webdir?
>>     
>
> Different from Tom, I may want to move it to a subfolder, perhaps.  If I
> plan to use a webserver for virtual hosting, I will create a subfolder
> within /var/www for each virtual host.  eg:
>
>   /var/www/www.mydomain.com/
>   /var/www/www.yourdomain.com/
>   /var/www/personal.mydomain.com/
>
> I think this would be less work and cause less issues than moving the
> entire /var/www somewhere else, but are there still any 'gotchas' I should
> be aware of?
>
> Regards, Msquared...
>
> _______________________________________________
> et-mgmt-tools mailing list
> et-mgmt-tools at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
>   

That shouldn't be too difficult.

If you set "server" to (for example) bootserver.mydomain.com in 
/var/lib/cobbler/settings and then "webdir" to 
/var/www/bootserver.mydomain.com/cobbler things should work out fine.   
That being said, it's not something I test, so if you encounter any 
weirdness, let me know, and I'll fix it.

You will definitely have to modify /etc/httpd.d/cobbler.conf to modify 
cobbler's Apache configuration -- though it's marked "config/noreplace" 
in the RPM
so it shouldn't change in an upgrade once you get it the way you want.  

The main thing is ensuring that the URL structure cobbler expects 
("http://$server/cobbler/") remains the same from http:// -- there 
shouldn't be any hardcodes of "/var/www/cobbler" anywhere in the Python 
code anymore -- and if you ever run across one, it's a bug.

Since the RPM will still want to own directory entries in 
/var/www/cobbler make sure you copy the directory structure over to the 
new location.  You can see
that information by looking for "/var/www/cobbler" in the RPM spec 
file.   Or, you can do what Tom did and build your own patched RPM -- in 
your case, I don't think you shouldn't have to do that -- but if you 
want to, you can.

Those directories are:

%dir /var/log/cobbler
%dir /var/log/cobbler/kicklog
%dir /var/www/cobbler/
%dir /var/www/cobbler/localmirror
%dir /var/www/cobbler/kickstarts
%dir /var/www/cobbler/kickstarts_sys
%dir /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror
%dir /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror
%dir /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/config
%dir /var/www/cobbler/images
%dir /var/www/cobbler/distros
%dir /var/www/cobbler/profiles
%dir /var/www/cobbler/systems
%dir /var/www/cobbler/links


--Michael