changing the context path

[noicangi]

hi, i follow the instructions of user doc, to change the path of the portal, the thing is that i put portal.web.context-root=(nothing) to enter http://localhost:8080 but when i do this i saw the files inside a portal instance and not the portal.

can you help me?

[theute]

What do you mean by "the files inside a portal instance" ?

[noicangi]

i deploy myportal.war with a layout and some images, then i set the context path to void and navigate to http://localhost:8080/ the browser showed the content inside the myportal.war, Very strange, so i'm not able to change the path.

[theute]

I don't get it, you should have jboss-portal.sar with nothing as context but have your myportal.war with something as context (don't bind the 2 on the same context)

Remove ROOT.war in jbossweb so it doesn't conflict as well and you will be fine.

[noicangi]

sorry for my english, what i dont know is how to make the url of the portal being http://localhost:8080/ in case of being http://localhost:8080/portal?

what i do in the local.properties was this
portal.web.context-root=(nothing)

is this correct?

[theute]

Yes then clean, rebuild and deploy:
ant clean
ant deploy

Also remove:
jboss-xxx/server/default/xxxxx/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/ROOT.war/

To avoid conflicts

[noicangi]

ok perfect, i get it, but now how can i access to the jboss configurtion (root.war) there's a way to set root.war to another url? like http://localhost:8080/config?

[theute]

Did you look at it ? it's a single HTML page with links to jmx-console and web-console basically...

If you want to keep it, you can move it to the deploy directory and rename it config.war so it will be available at localhost:8080/config

[noicangi]

ok thomas, thank you very much!!! for your fast answer and exactitud ;)

[glodo]

Hi noicangi..
i did like you say.. but still display the HTML and still display the portal like http://localhost:8080/portal
is anything else that need to configure?
it works for you?
can you give the steps?

so thanks
glodo

[glodo]

It works now.. but just with the IE.. with FireFox.. i could not yet make it works..
any help.. it would be glad..
so thanks
glo

[keletappi]

I noticed there are couple of points in this operation you might miss.


First of all ther is typo in documentation.

'portal.context-root' should be 'portal.web.context-root'

Second is that if you want server to respond from root context you probably
need to put it like:

portal.web.context-root=/

I had problems with firefox without slash in there.

Lastly you need to run 'build clean' before 'build deploy' or it will build it with
old context root.

[noicangi]

keletappi, what you say works?

i make the steps thomas said, about changing root.war to config.war to the deploy folder, but the path didn't work. maybe because i'm using portal cvs 2.4



glodo if you make it work please post.

[noicangi]

it works like this:

build the portal with
portal.web.context-root=/

c:/workspace/portal2.4/build> build clean

after cleaned


c:/workspace/portal2.4/build> build deploy

then its done, clean database and /server/default/data/portal

[keletappi]

Maybe somebody should update documentation to clarify the process. It is not obvious and it can take hours to figure out what to do.