[Ovirt-devel] ports and hostnames for the ovirt server

[Bryan Kearney]

If you use the url-for tags, they the rails app should be oblivious to 
the context. This should work for emails too. Note.. this is a rails 2.0 
comment.. I dont know about 1.X

-- bk


Scott Seago wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>
>>> 3. Relocate the ipa server so that it's not at the root URL
>>> 4. Relocate the ovirt server so that it's not at the root URL
>>>     
>>
>> IMHO, both IPA & oVirt should *not* take over the root URL. All apps
>> should default to a private prefix,  /ipa/  and /ovirt/.  When deploying
>> in production a simple mod-rewrite  rule can make either app take over
>> use of /, simply redirecting to the either /ipa or /ovirt depending
>> on which the server admin decides should be the default.
>>
>>   
> In addition to apache rewriting, the webapp may need to know this prefix 
> when generating URLs as well. With virt-factory, we did mount the whole 
> app at "/vf" and I had to feed this prefix to rails to prepend this to 
> generated URLs. Perhaps mod-rewrite can do this as well, but I wasn't 
> able to figure that out (although perhaps I was just being dense). Doing 
> this in the app did work, but it was a pain, as we had to prepend the 
> prefix all over the place.
>> The FreeIPA  config file is fundamentally broken since it assumes it is
>> the only app living in the apache server. This needs to be fixed so that
>> they play nicely with other apps. This means living under /ipa/ and 
>> having
>> an optional redirect from / at the site administrators discretion.
>>
>> Dan.
>>   
> The ovirt config suffers from this same problem currently.
> 
> Scott
> 
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