Noobie installtion problem

[Mark Dale-2]

Hi All

I've just installed Python, Zope and Plone with the unified installer on
a remote server (Ubuntu).

%: lynx localhost:8080  - displays the Zope Quickstart page okay
%: lynx localhost:8080/Plone  - displays the default Plone page okay

Could some one give me a clue on how I get Plone to display at
www.myserver.com/plone

cheers
Mark Dale





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[Darryl Dixon - Winterhouse Consulting-2]

Hi Mark,

You probably want some sort of service front-ending Plone, usually it's
Apache. Apache sends specially formatted requests to Plone via
mod_rewrite. You will want to look up Apache, mod_rewrite and the
VirtualHostBase URL directives for Zope.

An example mod_rewrite rule for Apache (possibly not exactly correct for
your situation), would be something like:

Redirect permanent /plone /plone/
RewriteRule /plone/(.*)
http://localhost:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/www.myserver.com:80/Plone/VirtualHostRoot/_vh_plone/$1
[L,P]

Hope this helps.

regards,
Darryl Dixon
Winterhouse Consulting Ltd
http://www.winterhouseconsulting.com

>
> Hi All
>
> I've just installed Python, Zope and Plone with the unified installer on
> a remote server (Ubuntu).
>
> %: lynx localhost:8080  - displays the Zope Quickstart page okay
> %: lynx localhost:8080/Plone  - displays the default Plone page okay
>
> Could some one give me a clue on how I get Plone to display at
> www.myserver.com/plone
>
> cheers
> Mark Dale
>
>
>
>
>
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[Mark Dale-2]

Hi Darryl

Thanks for your reply. I've had no luck yet.

I created a subdomain - http://plone.mydomain.com then I created a conf
file for plone in available-sites and the symlink in sites-enabled.

All tested okay.

Next I enabled the modules - proxy and rewrite.

Then I changed the conf file and put in a variation of your lines and
restarted Apache.

<VirtualHost 243.xxx.xxx.xxx>
   ServerName plone.mydomain.com
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule ^/(.*)
http://localhost:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/%{HTTP_HOST}:80/cps/VirtualHostRoot/$1
[P,L]
</VirtualHost>

On restart, all I could get was a 403 browser error message.


Am I on the right track (as in 'Close, but no cigar')?


regards
Mark

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Darryl Dixon - Winterhouse Consulting wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> You probably want some sort of service front-ending Plone, usually it's
> Apache. Apache sends specially formatted requests to Plone via
> mod_rewrite. You will want to look up Apache, mod_rewrite and the
> VirtualHostBase URL directives for Zope.
>
> An example mod_rewrite rule for Apache (possibly not exactly correct for
> your situation), would be something like:
>
> Redirect permanent /plone /plone/
> RewriteRule /plone/(.*)
> http://localhost:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/www.myserver.com:80/Plone/VirtualHostRoot/_vh_plone/$1
> [L,P]
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> regards,
> Darryl Dixon
> Winterhouse Consulting Ltd
> http://www.winterhouseconsulting.com
>
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> I've just installed Python, Zope and Plone with the unified installer on
>> a remote server (Ubuntu).
>>
>> %: lynx localhost:8080  - displays the Zope Quickstart page okay
>> %: lynx localhost:8080/Plone  - displays the default Plone page okay
>>
>> Could some one give me a clue on how I get Plone to display at
>> www.myserver.com/plone
>>
>> cheers
>> Mark Dale
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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[Julian Moller]

Hi Mark,
I had a rather confusing time when I was trying to get this to work for
me a while back!
Just checking, have you added a Virtual Host Monster to your site root?

What I found handy when I wanted to check what exact urls were being
rewritten to was adding these lines to your rewrite rule

RewriteLog "/wherever/rewrite_log"
RewriteLogLevel 2

to check stuff out  :)
also used some of plones error logs to see what it was getting by
turning on logging on NotFound errors and generating a few 404's

Goodluck,
Julian

Mark Dale wrote:

> Hi Darryl
>
> Thanks for your reply. I've had no luck yet.
>
> I created a subdomain - http://plone.mydomain.com then I created a conf
> file for plone in available-sites and the symlink in sites-enabled.
>
> All tested okay.
>
> Next I enabled the modules - proxy and rewrite.
>
> Then I changed the conf file and put in a variation of your lines and
> restarted Apache.
>
> <VirtualHost 243.xxx.xxx.xxx>
>    ServerName plone.mydomain.com
>    RewriteEngine on
>    RewriteRule ^/(.*)
> http://localhost:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/%{HTTP_HOST}:80/cps/VirtualHostRoot/$1
> [P,L]
> </VirtualHost>
>
> On restart, all I could get was a 403 browser error message.
>
>
> Am I on the right track (as in 'Close, but no cigar')?
>
>
> regards
> Mark
>
> --------------------------------------
> Mark Dale
> Tel: [phone]
> Fax: [phone]
> Mob: [phone]
> email: [hidden email]
> --------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>
> Darryl Dixon - Winterhouse Consulting wrote:
>  
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> You probably want some sort of service front-ending Plone, usually it's
>> Apache. Apache sends specially formatted requests to Plone via
>> mod_rewrite. You will want to look up Apache, mod_rewrite and the
>> VirtualHostBase URL directives for Zope.
>>
>> An example mod_rewrite rule for Apache (possibly not exactly correct for
>> your situation), would be something like:
>>
>> Redirect permanent /plone /plone/
>> RewriteRule /plone/(.*)
>> http://localhost:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/www.myserver.com:80/Plone/VirtualHostRoot/_vh_plone/$1
>> [L,P]
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> regards,
>> Darryl Dixon
>> Winterhouse Consulting Ltd
>> http://www.winterhouseconsulting.com
>>
>>
>>    
>>> Hi All
>>>
>>> I've just installed Python, Zope and Plone with the unified installer on
>>> a remote server (Ubuntu).
>>>
>>> %: lynx localhost:8080  - displays the Zope Quickstart page okay
>>> %: lynx localhost:8080/Plone  - displays the default Plone page okay
>>>
>>> Could some one give me a clue on how I get Plone to display at
>>> www.myserver.com/plone
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> Mark Dale
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>      
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[Tim Knapp]

Hi Mark,

Just one other thing that I've done historically is instead of
specifying the %{HTTP_HOST} I've specified the actual hostname (e.g.
plone.mydomain.com). I can't recall otoh if there's a specific reason
for this but I know this approach works :)

Something else that may help is the RewriteRule Witch[1] :)

-Tim

[1] http://betabug.ch/zope/witch

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 17:49 +1100, Mark Dale wrote:

>
> Hi Darryl
>
> Thanks for your reply. I've had no luck yet.
>
> I created a subdomain - http://plone.mydomain.com then I created a conf
> file for plone in available-sites and the symlink in sites-enabled.
>
> All tested okay.
>
> Next I enabled the modules - proxy and rewrite.
>
> Then I changed the conf file and put in a variation of your lines and
> restarted Apache.
>
> <VirtualHost 243.xxx.xxx.xxx>
>    ServerName plone.mydomain.com
>    RewriteEngine on
>    RewriteRule ^/(.*)
> http://localhost:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/%{HTTP_HOST}:80/cps/VirtualHostRoot/$1
> [P,L]
> </VirtualHost>
>
> On restart, all I could get was a 403 browser error message.
>
>
> Am I on the right track (as in 'Close, but no cigar')?
>
>
> regards
> Mark
>
> --------------------------------------
> Mark Dale
> Tel: [phone]
> Fax: [phone]
> Mob: [phone]
> email: [hidden email]
> --------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>
> Darryl Dixon - Winterhouse Consulting wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > You probably want some sort of service front-ending Plone, usually it's
> > Apache. Apache sends specially formatted requests to Plone via
> > mod_rewrite. You will want to look up Apache, mod_rewrite and the
> > VirtualHostBase URL directives for Zope.
> >
> > An example mod_rewrite rule for Apache (possibly not exactly correct for
> > your situation), would be something like:
> >
> > Redirect permanent /plone /plone/
> > RewriteRule /plone/(.*)
> > http://localhost:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/www.myserver.com:80/Plone/VirtualHostRoot/_vh_plone/$1
> > [L,P]
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > regards,
> > Darryl Dixon
> > Winterhouse Consulting Ltd
> > http://www.winterhouseconsulting.com
> >
> >
> >> Hi All
> >>
> >> I've just installed Python, Zope and Plone with the unified installer on
> >> a remote server (Ubuntu).
> >>
> >> %: lynx localhost:8080  - displays the Zope Quickstart page okay
> >> %: lynx localhost:8080/Plone  - displays the default Plone page okay
> >>
> >> Could some one give me a clue on how I get Plone to display at
> >> www.myserver.com/plone
> >>
> >> cheers
> >> Mark Dale
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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[Guy K. Kloss-2]

It may also have something to do with the way the Linux system is set up.
We've had this type of problem many times in distributed computing
environments when hosts announced themselves towards others as "localhost"
when asked by our Java framework.

I think especially SuSE systems were notorious for that.

You should check the /etc/hostname and in /etc/hosts. You should also check
what the command "hostname" and "hostname --fqdn" tells you. Ideally you
should just get the machine's name with the first, and with the domain name
appended on the second. To do that my machine has got the following entry in
the /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1       it041227.massey.ac.nz it041227 localhost

Unfortunately these tend to be configured awkwardly on many machines out of
the box to screw up these services.

HTH,

Guy

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