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Mansour

Accessing images from external application

I have a web application that I need to run on the same server as ofbiz.
The choices I have are either to deploy ofbiz to an external server
(tomcat or geronimo) and deploy my other webapp to the same server,
or deploy the application under ofbiz and get the built-in servlet
container to serve the requests.

I found what I am trying to do is described in this document

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Load+OpenI+%28Mondrian+Implementation%29+under+OFBiz

I deployed my web application following this document. However, when I
mount the application on something like (mount-point="/myApplicaiton")
everything works fine. But when I make it the default application and
mount it on ( mount-point="/"), I don't see the images on the pages.
css files are served properly, but not images !

The error I get when I try to browse to the image URL
is error 404. For example, http://localhost:8080/images/lines.png will
result in error 404 only when the application is mounted on "/".
If I mount the same application on "/myApplication" and access it with
http://localhost:8080/myApplication/images/lines.png it will work fine !

Is there any additional configuration I need to do to get the images to
display properly ?

Thank you in advance.

Bilgin Ibryam-2

Re: Accessing images from external application

I had a similar problem and if I remember right, the problem was that
images folder inside my custom app was confused with images
application existing in framework. The solution I found was to rename
images folder inside my custom app.

HTH
Bilgin Ibryam

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Mansour Al Akeel
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> I have a web application that I need to run on the same server as ofbiz.
> The choices I have are either to deploy ofbiz to an external server
> (tomcat or geronimo) and deploy my other webapp to the same server,
> or deploy the application under ofbiz and get the built-in servlet
> container to serve the requests.
>
> I found what I am trying to do is described in this document
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Load+OpenI+%28Mondrian+Implementation%29+under+OFBiz
>
> I deployed my web application following this document. However, when I
> mount the application on something like (mount-point="/myApplicaiton")
> everything works fine. But when I make it the default application and
> mount it on ( mount-point="/"), I don't see the images on the pages.
> css files are served properly, but not images !
>
> The error I get when I try to browse to the image URL
> is error 404. For example, http://localhost:8080/images/lines.png will
> result in error 404 only when the application is mounted on "/".
> If I mount the same application on "/myApplication" and access it with
> http://localhost:8080/myApplication/images/lines.png it will work fine !
>
> Is there any additional configuration I need to do to get the images to
> display properly ?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
>
>

hardik handa

RE: Accessing images from external application

What I would prefer is to keep the application in hot deploy folder and pass the parameter to the startup file for the external application into the startupofbiz.bat , this would lead to the external application to start whenever you start Ofbiz.

Cheers,
Hardik Handa
[hidden email]

-----Original Message-----
From: Bilgin Ibryam [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 2:20 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Accessing images from external application

I had a similar problem and if I remember right, the problem was that
images folder inside my custom app was confused with images
application existing in framework. The solution I found was to rename
images folder inside my custom app.

HTH
Bilgin Ibryam

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Mansour Al Akeel
<[hidden email]> wrote:

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Mansour

Re: Accessing images from external application

Hardik,
can you please kindly elaborate ?
What are the parameters that I can pass through ofbiz startup scripts to
fix this issue?
I have the application in hot-deploy already.

On Wed Aug 03,2011 02:27 pm, Hardik Handa wrote:

> What I would prefer is to keep the application in hot deploy folder and pass the parameter to the startup file for the external application into the startupofbiz.bat , this would lead to the external application to start whenever you start Ofbiz.
>
> Cheers,
> Hardik Handa
> [hidden email]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bilgin Ibryam [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 2:20 PM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: Accessing images from external application
>
> I had a similar problem and if I remember right, the problem was that
> images folder inside my custom app was confused with images
> application existing in framework. The solution I found was to rename
> images folder inside my custom app.
>
> HTH
> Bilgin Ibryam
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Mansour Al Akeel
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > I have a web application that I need to run on the same server as ofbiz.
> > The choices I have are either to deploy ofbiz to an external server
> > (tomcat or geronimo) and deploy my other webapp to the same server,
> > or deploy the application under ofbiz and get the built-in servlet
> > container to serve the requests.
> >
> > I found what I am trying to do is described in this document
> >
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Load+OpenI+%28Mondrian+Implementation%29+under+OFBiz
> >
> > I deployed my web application following this document. However, when I
> > mount the application on something like (mount-point="/myApplicaiton")
> > everything works fine. But when I make it the default application and
> > mount it on ( mount-point="/"), I don't see the images on the pages.
> > css files are served properly, but not images !
> >
> > The error I get when I try to browse to the image URL
> > is error 404. For example, http://localhost:8080/images/lines.png will
> > result in error 404 only when the application is mounted on "/".
> > If I mount the same application on "/myApplication" and access it with
> > http://localhost:8080/myApplication/images/lines.png it will work fine !
> >
> > Is there any additional configuration I need to do to get the images to
> > display properly ?
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> >
> >
>
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rajsaini

Re: Accessing images from external application

Your problem is OFBiz image application is conflicting with the image
folder of your root application. One way to solve this is to use Apache
Web server to front your OFbiz instance. This way, you can serve the
images statically and few people claim it is faster to serve static
contents using Apache Web server than servlet engines like Tomcat. This
way, you can also easily have multiple domain serving applications from
single instance of OFbiz.

If you want to go this way, you will need mod_proxy and mod_proxy_ajp
and configure your Apache web server. There are instructions on wiki
that you can search.

Thanks,

Raj

On Wednesday 03 August 2011 03:22 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:

> Hardik,
> can you please kindly elaborate ?
> What are the parameters that I can pass through ofbiz startup scripts to
> fix this issue?
> I have the application in hot-deploy already.
>
>
>
> On Wed Aug 03,2011 02:27 pm, Hardik Handa wrote:
>> What I would prefer is to keep the application in hot deploy folder and pass the parameter to the startup file for the external application into the startupofbiz.bat , this would lead to the external application to start whenever you start Ofbiz.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Hardik Handa
>> [hidden email]
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bilgin Ibryam [mailto:[hidden email]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 2:20 PM
>> To: [hidden email]
>> Subject: Re: Accessing images from external application
>>
>> I had a similar problem and if I remember right, the problem was that
>> images folder inside my custom app was confused with images
>> application existing in framework. The solution I found was to rename
>> images folder inside my custom app.
>>
>> HTH
>> Bilgin Ibryam
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Mansour Al Akeel
>> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> I have a web application that I need to run on the same server as ofbiz.
>>> The choices I have are either to deploy ofbiz to an external server
>>> (tomcat or geronimo) and deploy my other webapp to the same server,
>>> or deploy the application under ofbiz and get the built-in servlet
>>> container to serve the requests.
>>>
>>> I found what I am trying to do is described in this document
>>>
>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Load+OpenI+%28Mondrian+Implementation%29+under+OFBiz
>>>
>>> I deployed my web application following this document. However, when I
>>> mount the application on something like (mount-point="/myApplicaiton")
>>> everything works fine. But when I make it the default application and
>>> mount it on ( mount-point="/"), I don't see the images on the pages.
>>> css files are served properly, but not images !
>>>
>>> The error I get when I try to browse to the image URL
>>> is error 404. For example, http://localhost:8080/images/lines.png will
>>> result in error 404 only when the application is mounted on "/".
>>> If I mount the same application on "/myApplication" and access it with
>>> http://localhost:8080/myApplication/images/lines.png it will work fine !
>>>
>>> Is there any additional configuration I need to do to get the images to
>>> display properly ?
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> ::DISCLAIMER::
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only.
>> It shall not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Any views or opinions presented in
>> this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of HCL or its affiliates.
>> Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of
>> this message without the prior written consent of the author of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have
>> received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any mail and
>> attachments please check them for viruses and defect.
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Mansour

Re: Accessing images from external application

Hello Raj,

And thank you for the explaination. I totally understand this from
Bilgin reply. I didn't think of it, until he reminded me there's an
"image" component. But I am interested to see other solutions.
With regard to you suggestion, I have the web application already
deployed and it works with or without ofbiz. But how would configuring
apache server help in solving the issue of accessing static contents
under myApplication. Assuming the I will foward all the requests on port
80 to port 8080, and 443 to 8443, how would this solve the issue ?

On Wed Aug 03,2011 04:12 pm, Raj Saini wrote:

> Your problem is OFBiz image application is conflicting with the image
> folder of your root application. One way to solve this is to use Apache
> Web server to front your OFbiz instance. This way, you can serve the
> images statically and few people claim it is faster to serve static
> contents using Apache Web server than servlet engines like Tomcat. This
> way, you can also easily have multiple domain serving applications from
> single instance of OFbiz.
>
> If you want to go this way, you will need mod_proxy and mod_proxy_ajp
> and configure your Apache web server. There are instructions on wiki
> that you can search.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Raj
>
> On Wednesday 03 August 2011 03:22 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
> > Hardik,
> > can you please kindly elaborate ?
> > What are the parameters that I can pass through ofbiz startup scripts to
> > fix this issue?
> > I have the application in hot-deploy already.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed Aug 03,2011 02:27 pm, Hardik Handa wrote:
> >> What I would prefer is to keep the application in hot deploy folder and pass the parameter to the startup file for the external application into the startupofbiz.bat , this would lead to the external application to start whenever you start Ofbiz.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Hardik Handa
> >> [hidden email]
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Bilgin Ibryam [mailto:[hidden email]]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 2:20 PM
> >> To: [hidden email]
> >> Subject: Re: Accessing images from external application
> >>
> >> I had a similar problem and if I remember right, the problem was that
> >> images folder inside my custom app was confused with images
> >> application existing in framework. The solution I found was to rename
> >> images folder inside my custom app.
> >>
> >> HTH
> >> Bilgin Ibryam
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Mansour Al Akeel
> >> <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >>> I have a web application that I need to run on the same server as ofbiz.
> >>> The choices I have are either to deploy ofbiz to an external server
> >>> (tomcat or geronimo) and deploy my other webapp to the same server,
> >>> or deploy the application under ofbiz and get the built-in servlet
> >>> container to serve the requests.
> >>>
> >>> I found what I am trying to do is described in this document
> >>>
> >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Load+OpenI+%28Mondrian+Implementation%29+under+OFBiz
> >>>
> >>> I deployed my web application following this document. However, when I
> >>> mount the application on something like (mount-point="/myApplicaiton")
> >>> everything works fine. But when I make it the default application and
> >>> mount it on ( mount-point="/"), I don't see the images on the pages.
> >>> css files are served properly, but not images !
> >>>
> >>> The error I get when I try to browse to the image URL
> >>> is error 404. For example, http://localhost:8080/images/lines.png will
> >>> result in error 404 only when the application is mounted on "/".
> >>> If I mount the same application on "/myApplication" and access it with
> >>> http://localhost:8080/myApplication/images/lines.png it will work fine !
> >>>
> >>> Is there any additional configuration I need to do to get the images to
> >>> display properly ?
> >>>
> >>> Thank you in advance.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> ::DISCLAIMER::
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only.
> >> It shall not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Any views or opinions presented in
> >> this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of HCL or its affiliates.
> >> Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of
> >> this message without the prior written consent of the author of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have
> >> received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any mail and
> >> attachments please check them for viruses and defect.
> >>
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>

rajsaini

Re: Accessing images from external application

What you can do is:

1. Mount your application in OFbiz as "YourApp" and not root.
2. Create a virtual host in the Apache Web server or use the default one
if you have just one.
3. You can copy the static contents to the document root of the virtual
host.
4. Use AJP proxy to map your root request to "YourApp". For example,
Apache will forward all requests coming at
http://www.yourdomain.com/ to ajp://localhost:8080/yourapp/ and you can
copy your images to the document root of the your virtual host. In your
virtual host proxy mapping you can exclude the static contents such as
your images. I generally use mod_rewirte and below is a simple example:

RewriteCond /srv/www/yourdomain/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond /srv/www/yourdomain//%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ ajp://localhost:8009/yourapp/control/$1

This directive says, if the last part of URL is not a physical file or
directory on filesystem, forward it to OFBiz, else serve it from file
system. If you copy your images to the document root and above
conditions hold false, they will be served by Apache Web sever.

You can still access other OFbiz application using 9443 port, or create
their own virtual hosts or use a single virtual host to serve them.

Thanks,

Raj

On Wednesday 03 August 2011 04:36 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:

> Hello Raj,
>
> And thank you for the explaination. I totally understand this from
> Bilgin reply. I didn't think of it, until he reminded me there's an
> "image" component. But I am interested to see other solutions.
> With regard to you suggestion, I have the web application already
> deployed and it works with or without ofbiz. But how would configuring
> apache server help in solving the issue of accessing static contents
> under myApplication. Assuming the I will foward all the requests on port
> 80 to port 8080, and 443 to 8443, how would this solve the issue ?
>
>
>
> On Wed Aug 03,2011 04:12 pm, Raj Saini wrote:
>> Your problem is OFBiz image application is conflicting with the image
>> folder of your root application. One way to solve this is to use Apache
>> Web server to front your OFbiz instance. This way, you can serve the
>> images statically and few people claim it is faster to serve static
>> contents using Apache Web server than servlet engines like Tomcat. This
>> way, you can also easily have multiple domain serving applications from
>> single instance of OFbiz.
>>
>> If you want to go this way, you will need mod_proxy and mod_proxy_ajp
>> and configure your Apache web server. There are instructions on wiki
>> that you can search.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Raj
>>
>> On Wednesday 03 August 2011 03:22 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
>>> Hardik,
>>> can you please kindly elaborate ?
>>> What are the parameters that I can pass through ofbiz startup scripts to
>>> fix this issue?
>>> I have the application in hot-deploy already.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed Aug 03,2011 02:27 pm, Hardik Handa wrote:
>>>> What I would prefer is to keep the application in hot deploy folder and pass the parameter to the startup file for the external application into the startupofbiz.bat , this would lead to the external application to start whenever you start Ofbiz.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Hardik Handa
>>>> [hidden email]
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Bilgin Ibryam [mailto:[hidden email]]
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 2:20 PM
>>>> To: [hidden email]
>>>> Subject: Re: Accessing images from external application
>>>>
>>>> I had a similar problem and if I remember right, the problem was that
>>>> images folder inside my custom app was confused with images
>>>> application existing in framework. The solution I found was to rename
>>>> images folder inside my custom app.
>>>>
>>>> HTH
>>>> Bilgin Ibryam
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Mansour Al Akeel
>>>> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>>> I have a web application that I need to run on the same server as ofbiz.
>>>>> The choices I have are either to deploy ofbiz to an external server
>>>>> (tomcat or geronimo) and deploy my other webapp to the same server,
>>>>> or deploy the application under ofbiz and get the built-in servlet
>>>>> container to serve the requests.
>>>>>
>>>>> I found what I am trying to do is described in this document
>>>>>
>>>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Load+OpenI+%28Mondrian+Implementation%29+under+OFBiz
>>>>>
>>>>> I deployed my web application following this document. However, when I
>>>>> mount the application on something like (mount-point="/myApplicaiton")
>>>>> everything works fine. But when I make it the default application and
>>>>> mount it on ( mount-point="/"), I don't see the images on the pages.
>>>>> css files are served properly, but not images !
>>>>>
>>>>> The error I get when I try to browse to the image URL
>>>>> is error 404. For example, http://localhost:8080/images/lines.png will
>>>>> result in error 404 only when the application is mounted on "/".
>>>>> If I mount the same application on "/myApplication" and access it with
>>>>> http://localhost:8080/myApplication/images/lines.png it will work fine !
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any additional configuration I need to do to get the images to
>>>>> display properly ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> ::DISCLAIMER::
>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only.
>>>> It shall not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Any views or opinions presented in
>>>> this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of HCL or its affiliates.
>>>> Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of
>>>> this message without the prior written consent of the author of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have
>>>> received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any mail and
>>>> attachments please check them for viruses and defect.
>>>>
>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Mansour

Re: Accessing images from external application

Great work, Raj !
One last question, what would this do with requests to other ofbiz
components? For example http://www.yourdomain.com/myportal or
http://www.yourdomain.com/projectmgr ?

What about other images under other components ?

I will try your suggestion soon.

On Wed Aug 03,2011 04:52 pm, Raj Saini wrote:

> What you can do is:
>
> 1. Mount your application in OFbiz as "YourApp" and not root.
> 2. Create a virtual host in the Apache Web server or use the default one
> if you have just one.
> 3. You can copy the static contents to the document root of the virtual
> host.
> 4. Use AJP proxy to map your root request to "YourApp". For example,
> Apache will forward all requests coming at
> http://www.yourdomain.com/ to ajp://localhost:8080/yourapp/ and you can
> copy your images to the document root of the your virtual host. In your
> virtual host proxy mapping you can exclude the static contents such as
> your images. I generally use mod_rewirte and below is a simple example:
>
> RewriteCond /srv/www/yourdomain/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> RewriteCond /srv/www/yourdomain//%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
> RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ ajp://localhost:8009/yourapp/control/$1
>
> This directive says, if the last part of URL is not a physical file or
> directory on filesystem, forward it to OFBiz, else serve it from file
> system. If you copy your images to the document root and above
> conditions hold false, they will be served by Apache Web sever.
>
> You can still access other OFbiz application using 9443 port, or create
> their own virtual hosts or use a single virtual host to serve them.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Raj
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wednesday 03 August 2011 04:36 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
> > Hello Raj,
> >
> > And thank you for the explaination. I totally understand this from
> > Bilgin reply. I didn't think of it, until he reminded me there's an
> > "image" component. But I am interested to see other solutions.
> > With regard to you suggestion, I have the web application already
> > deployed and it works with or without ofbiz. But how would configuring
> > apache server help in solving the issue of accessing static contents
> > under myApplication. Assuming the I will foward all the requests on port
> > 80 to port 8080, and 443 to 8443, how would this solve the issue ?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed Aug 03,2011 04:12 pm, Raj Saini wrote:
> >> Your problem is OFBiz image application is conflicting with the image
> >> folder of your root application. One way to solve this is to use Apache
> >> Web server to front your OFbiz instance. This way, you can serve the
> >> images statically and few people claim it is faster to serve static
> >> contents using Apache Web server than servlet engines like Tomcat. This
> >> way, you can also easily have multiple domain serving applications from
> >> single instance of OFbiz.
> >>
> >> If you want to go this way, you will need mod_proxy and mod_proxy_ajp
> >> and configure your Apache web server. There are instructions on wiki
> >> that you can search.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Raj
> >>
> >> On Wednesday 03 August 2011 03:22 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
> >>> Hardik,
> >>> can you please kindly elaborate ?
> >>> What are the parameters that I can pass through ofbiz startup scripts to
> >>> fix this issue?
> >>> I have the application in hot-deploy already.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed Aug 03,2011 02:27 pm, Hardik Handa wrote:
> >>>> What I would prefer is to keep the application in hot deploy folder and pass the parameter to the startup file for the external application into the startupofbiz.bat , this would lead to the external application to start whenever you start Ofbiz.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> Hardik Handa
> >>>> [hidden email]
> >>>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: Bilgin Ibryam [mailto:[hidden email]]
> >>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 2:20 PM
> >>>> To: [hidden email]
> >>>> Subject: Re: Accessing images from external application
> >>>>
> >>>> I had a similar problem and if I remember right, the problem was that
> >>>> images folder inside my custom app was confused with images
> >>>> application existing in framework. The solution I found was to rename
> >>>> images folder inside my custom app.
> >>>>
> >>>> HTH
> >>>> Bilgin Ibryam
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Mansour Al Akeel
> >>>> <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >>>>> I have a web application that I need to run on the same server as ofbiz.
> >>>>> The choices I have are either to deploy ofbiz to an external server
> >>>>> (tomcat or geronimo) and deploy my other webapp to the same server,
> >>>>> or deploy the application under ofbiz and get the built-in servlet
> >>>>> container to serve the requests.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I found what I am trying to do is described in this document
> >>>>>
> >>>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Load+OpenI+%28Mondrian+Implementation%29+under+OFBiz
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I deployed my web application following this document. However, when I
> >>>>> mount the application on something like (mount-point="/myApplicaiton")
> >>>>> everything works fine. But when I make it the default application and
> >>>>> mount it on ( mount-point="/"), I don't see the images on the pages.
> >>>>> css files are served properly, but not images !
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The error I get when I try to browse to the image URL
> >>>>> is error 404. For example, http://localhost:8080/images/lines.png will
> >>>>> result in error 404 only when the application is mounted on "/".
> >>>>> If I mount the same application on "/myApplication" and access it with
> >>>>> http://localhost:8080/myApplication/images/lines.png it will work fine !
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is there any additional configuration I need to do to get the images to
> >>>>> display properly ?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thank you in advance.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> ::DISCLAIMER::
> >>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>
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hardik handa

RE: Accessing images from external application

You got a better solution my friend lol :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Mansour Al Akeel [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 5:06 PM
To: Raj Saini
Cc: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Accessing images from external application

Great work, Raj !
One last question, what would this do with requests to other ofbiz
components? For example http://www.yourdomain.com/myportal or
http://www.yourdomain.com/projectmgr ?

What about other images under other components ?

I will try your suggestion soon.

On Wed Aug 03,2011 04:52 pm, Raj Saini wrote:

rajsaini

Re: Accessing images from external application

In reply to this post by Mansour

Mansour,

I would suggest you to create a separate virtual host e.g.
admin.mydomain.com or erp.mydomain.com for other OFbiz applications.
Within that virtual host, you can rewrite the URLs like:

RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ ajp://localhost:8009/$1 [P,L]

And you will be able to access your applications like
http://admin.mydomain.com/catalog/control/main

Thanks,

Raj

PS: My previous example was missing the [P,L]. This is needed to
indicate that this request is a proxy and once matched not to go to next
directive. You can find more about this in mod_rewrite guide.

On Wednesday 03 August 2011 05:05 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:

> Great work, Raj !
> One last question, what would this do with requests to other ofbiz
> components? For example http://www.yourdomain.com/myportal or
> http://www.yourdomain.com/projectmgr ?
>
> What about other images under other components ?
>
> I will try your suggestion soon.
>
>
>
> On Wed Aug 03,2011 04:52 pm, Raj Saini wrote:
>> What you can do is:
>>
>> 1. Mount your application in OFbiz as "YourApp" and not root.
>> 2. Create a virtual host in the Apache Web server or use the default one
>> if you have just one.
>> 3. You can copy the static contents to the document root of the virtual
>> host.
>> 4. Use AJP proxy to map your root request to "YourApp". For example,
>> Apache will forward all requests coming at
>> http://www.yourdomain.com/ to ajp://localhost:8080/yourapp/ and you can
>> copy your images to the document root of the your virtual host. In your
>> virtual host proxy mapping you can exclude the static contents such as
>> your images. I generally use mod_rewirte and below is a simple example:
>>
>> RewriteCond /srv/www/yourdomain/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
>> RewriteCond /srv/www/yourdomain//%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
>> RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ ajp://localhost:8009/yourapp/control/$1
>>
>> This directive says, if the last part of URL is not a physical file or
>> directory on filesystem, forward it to OFBiz, else serve it from file
>> system. If you copy your images to the document root and above
>> conditions hold false, they will be served by Apache Web sever.
>>
>> You can still access other OFbiz application using 9443 port, or create
>> their own virtual hosts or use a single virtual host to serve them.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Raj
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday 03 August 2011 04:36 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
>>> Hello Raj,
>>>
>>> And thank you for the explaination. I totally understand this from
>>> Bilgin reply. I didn't think of it, until he reminded me there's an
>>> "image" component. But I am interested to see other solutions.
>>> With regard to you suggestion, I have the web application already
>>> deployed and it works with or without ofbiz. But how would configuring
>>> apache server help in solving the issue of accessing static contents
>>> under myApplication. Assuming the I will foward all the requests on port
>>> 80 to port 8080, and 443 to 8443, how would this solve the issue ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed Aug 03,2011 04:12 pm, Raj Saini wrote:
>>>> Your problem is OFBiz image application is conflicting with the image
>>>> folder of your root application. One way to solve this is to use Apache
>>>> Web server to front your OFbiz instance. This way, you can serve the
>>>> images statically and few people claim it is faster to serve static
>>>> contents using Apache Web server than servlet engines like Tomcat. This
>>>> way, you can also easily have multiple domain serving applications from
>>>> single instance of OFbiz.
>>>>
>>>> If you want to go this way, you will need mod_proxy and mod_proxy_ajp
>>>> and configure your Apache web server. There are instructions on wiki
>>>> that you can search.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Raj
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday 03 August 2011 03:22 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
>>>>> Hardik,
>>>>> can you please kindly elaborate ?
>>>>> What are the parameters that I can pass through ofbiz startup scripts to
>>>>> fix this issue?
>>>>> I have the application in hot-deploy already.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed Aug 03,2011 02:27 pm, Hardik Handa wrote:
>>>>>> What I would prefer is to keep the application in hot deploy folder and pass the parameter to the startup file for the external application into the startupofbiz.bat , this would lead to the external application to start whenever you start Ofbiz.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Hardik Handa
>>>>>> [hidden email]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Bilgin Ibryam [mailto:[hidden email]]
>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 2:20 PM
>>>>>> To: [hidden email]
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Accessing images from external application
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I had a similar problem and if I remember right, the problem was that
>>>>>> images folder inside my custom app was confused with images
>>>>>> application existing in framework. The solution I found was to rename
>>>>>> images folder inside my custom app.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> HTH
>>>>>> Bilgin Ibryam
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Mansour Al Akeel
>>>>>> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>>>>> I have a web application that I need to run on the same server as ofbiz.
>>>>>>> The choices I have are either to deploy ofbiz to an external server
>>>>>>> (tomcat or geronimo) and deploy my other webapp to the same server,
>>>>>>> or deploy the application under ofbiz and get the built-in servlet
>>>>>>> container to serve the requests.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I found what I am trying to do is described in this document
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Load+OpenI+%28Mondrian+Implementation%29+under+OFBiz
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I deployed my web application following this document. However, when I
>>>>>>> mount the application on something like (mount-point="/myApplicaiton")
>>>>>>> everything works fine. But when I make it the default application and
>>>>>>> mount it on ( mount-point="/"), I don't see the images on the pages.
>>>>>>> css files are served properly, but not images !
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The error I get when I try to browse to the image URL
>>>>>>> is error 404. For example, http://localhost:8080/images/lines.png will
>>>>>>> result in error 404 only when the application is mounted on "/".
>>>>>>> If I mount the same application on "/myApplication" and access it with
>>>>>>> http://localhost:8080/myApplication/images/lines.png it will work fine !
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there any additional configuration I need to do to get the images to
>>>>>>> display properly ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>> It shall not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Any views or opinions presented in
>>>>>> this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of HCL or its affiliates.
>>>>>> Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of
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BJ Freeman

Re: Accessing images from external application

In reply to this post by Mansour

take a look at how themes servs up their css and images.
each one does it a different way.
also do you have an image folder and is it in the foot of the app or
under webapp folder.
check the web.xml
<param-name>allowedPaths</param-name>

Mansour Al Akeel sent the following on 8/3/2011 12:11 AM:

Mansour

Re: Accessing images from external application

In reply to this post by rajsaini

Raj,
Good advice. I think I will try this one, sometime this week.

Thank you a lot.

On Wed Aug 03,2011 07:31 pm, Raj Saini wrote:

> Mansour,
>
> I would suggest you to create a separate virtual host e.g.
> admin.mydomain.com or erp.mydomain.com for other OFbiz applications.
> Within that virtual host, you can rewrite the URLs like:
>
> RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ ajp://localhost:8009/$1 [P,L]
>
>
>
> And you will be able to access your applications like
> http://admin.mydomain.com/catalog/control/main
>
> Thanks,
>
> Raj
>
> PS: My previous example was missing the [P,L]. This is needed to
> indicate that this request is a proxy and once matched not to go to next
> directive. You can find more about this in mod_rewrite guide.
>
>
>
> On Wednesday 03 August 2011 05:05 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
> > Great work, Raj !
> > One last question, what would this do with requests to other ofbiz
> > components? For example http://www.yourdomain.com/myportal or
> > http://www.yourdomain.com/projectmgr ?
> >
> > What about other images under other components ?
> >
> > I will try your suggestion soon.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed Aug 03,2011 04:52 pm, Raj Saini wrote:
> >> What you can do is:
> >>
> >> 1. Mount your application in OFbiz as "YourApp" and not root.
> >> 2. Create a virtual host in the Apache Web server or use the default one
> >> if you have just one.
> >> 3. You can copy the static contents to the document root of the virtual
> >> host.
> >> 4. Use AJP proxy to map your root request to "YourApp". For example,
> >> Apache will forward all requests coming at
> >> http://www.yourdomain.com/ to ajp://localhost:8080/yourapp/ and you can
> >> copy your images to the document root of the your virtual host. In your
> >> virtual host proxy mapping you can exclude the static contents such as
> >> your images. I generally use mod_rewirte and below is a simple example:
> >>
> >> RewriteCond /srv/www/yourdomain/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> >> RewriteCond /srv/www/yourdomain//%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
> >> RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ ajp://localhost:8009/yourapp/control/$1
> >>
> >> This directive says, if the last part of URL is not a physical file or
> >> directory on filesystem, forward it to OFBiz, else serve it from file
> >> system. If you copy your images to the document root and above
> >> conditions hold false, they will be served by Apache Web sever.
> >>
> >> You can still access other OFbiz application using 9443 port, or create
> >> their own virtual hosts or use a single virtual host to serve them.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Raj
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wednesday 03 August 2011 04:36 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
> >>> Hello Raj,
> >>>
> >>> And thank you for the explaination. I totally understand this from
> >>> Bilgin reply. I didn't think of it, until he reminded me there's an
> >>> "image" component. But I am interested to see other solutions.
> >>> With regard to you suggestion, I have the web application already
> >>> deployed and it works with or without ofbiz. But how would configuring
> >>> apache server help in solving the issue of accessing static contents
> >>> under myApplication. Assuming the I will foward all the requests on port
> >>> 80 to port 8080, and 443 to 8443, how would this solve the issue ?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed Aug 03,2011 04:12 pm, Raj Saini wrote:
> >>>> Your problem is OFBiz image application is conflicting with the image
> >>>> folder of your root application. One way to solve this is to use Apache
> >>>> Web server to front your OFbiz instance. This way, you can serve the
> >>>> images statically and few people claim it is faster to serve static
> >>>> contents using Apache Web server than servlet engines like Tomcat. This
> >>>> way, you can also easily have multiple domain serving applications from
> >>>> single instance of OFbiz.
> >>>>
> >>>> If you want to go this way, you will need mod_proxy and mod_proxy_ajp
> >>>> and configure your Apache web server. There are instructions on wiki
> >>>> that you can search.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>>
> >>>> Raj
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wednesday 03 August 2011 03:22 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
> >>>>> Hardik,
> >>>>> can you please kindly elaborate ?
> >>>>> What are the parameters that I can pass through ofbiz startup scripts to
> >>>>> fix this issue?
> >>>>> I have the application in hot-deploy already.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Wed Aug 03,2011 02:27 pm, Hardik Handa wrote:
> >>>>>> What I would prefer is to keep the application in hot deploy folder and pass the parameter to the startup file for the external application into the startupofbiz.bat , this would lead to the external application to start whenever you start Ofbiz.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>>> Hardik Handa
> >>>>>> [hidden email]
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>>> From: Bilgin Ibryam [mailto:[hidden email]]
> >>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 2:20 PM
> >>>>>> To: [hidden email]
> >>>>>> Subject: Re: Accessing images from external application
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I had a similar problem and if I remember right, the problem was that
> >>>>>> images folder inside my custom app was confused with images
> >>>>>> application existing in framework. The solution I found was to rename
> >>>>>> images folder inside my custom app.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> HTH
> >>>>>> Bilgin Ibryam
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Mansour Al Akeel
> >>>>>> <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >>>>>>> I have a web application that I need to run on the same server as ofbiz.
> >>>>>>> The choices I have are either to deploy ofbiz to an external server
> >>>>>>> (tomcat or geronimo) and deploy my other webapp to the same server,
> >>>>>>> or deploy the application under ofbiz and get the built-in servlet
> >>>>>>> container to serve the requests.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I found what I am trying to do is described in this document
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Load+OpenI+%28Mondrian+Implementation%29+under+OFBiz
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I deployed my web application following this document. However, when I
> >>>>>>> mount the application on something like (mount-point="/myApplicaiton")
> >>>>>>> everything works fine. But when I make it the default application and
> >>>>>>> mount it on ( mount-point="/"), I don't see the images on the pages.
> >>>>>>> css files are served properly, but not images !
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The error I get when I try to browse to the image URL
> >>>>>>> is error 404. For example, http://localhost:8080/images/lines.png will
> >>>>>>> result in error 404 only when the application is mounted on "/".
> >>>>>>> If I mount the same application on "/myApplication" and access it with
> >>>>>>> http://localhost:8080/myApplication/images/lines.png it will work fine !
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Is there any additional configuration I need to do to get the images to
> >>>>>>> display properly ?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Thank you in advance.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>> ::DISCLAIMER::
> >>>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only.
> >>>>>> It shall not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Any views or opinions presented in
> >>>>>> this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of HCL or its affiliates.
> >>>>>> Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of
> >>>>>> this message without the prior written consent of the author of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have
> >>>>>> received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any mail and
> >>>>>> attachments please check them for viruses and defect.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>