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bougie Newbie
bougie
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Aug 3, 2007
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Aug 3, 2007 2:32 PM

Zenoss with Apache (SSL) and alternative root

Hi All,

We would like to access Zenoss over SSL using Apache. The howto works correctly ( http://www.zenoss.com/community/docs/howtos/setup-zenoss-with-apache/ ), but our setup is slightly different. We serve other applications over SSL on the same host, so we would like to redirect everything under "zenoss" rather than our entire SSL VirtualHost.

To accomplish this, we've tried modifying the RewriteRule's as follows:
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RewriteRule ^/zenoss$ http://assets.lepp.cornell.edu:8080/VirtualHostBase/https/assets.lepp.cornell.edu:443/VirtualHostRoot/_vh_zenoss [L,P]
RewriteRule ^/zenoss/(.*) http://assets.lepp.cornell.edu:8080/VirtualHostBase/https/assets.lepp.cornell.edu:443/VirtualHostRoot/_vh_zenoss/$1 [L,P]
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However, this doesn't quite work. When we try to browse to https://assets.lepp.cornell.edu/zenoss , we are redirected to https://assets.lepp.cornell.edu/zport/dmd/ , which obviously isn't right.

Has anyone else gotten a similar configuration to work? Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,
Devin
  • bougie Newbie
    bougie
    4 posts since
    Aug 3, 2007
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    1. Aug 3, 2007 2:50 PM (in response to bougie)
    RE: Zenoss with Apache (SSL) and alternative root
    As a workaround, the following rules seem to work reasonably well:
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    RewriteRule ^/ocsreports - [L]
    RewriteRule ^/glpi - [L]
    RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://assets.lepp.cornell.edu:8080/VirtualHostBase/https/assets.lepp.cornell.edu:443/VirtualHostRoot/$1 [L,P]
    ------

    I would still appreciate any advice for fixing my initial attempts.

    Thanks,
    Devin
  • RyanBLynch Rank: White Belt
    RyanBLynch
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    Aug 24, 2009
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    2. Feb 22, 2010 12:33 PM (in response to bougie)
    Re: RE: Zenoss with Apache (SSL) and alternative root

    This might be too late to do you any good, but the problem is in Zenoss's page templates. A lot of the URLs are hard-coded into the page templates with static paths, rooted on '/zport/...'. Zope's virtual hosting support can only handle URLs that it dynamically generates, so the hard-coded URLs in the templates don't reflect the alternative root. Some of the URLs are correctly handled (e.g., the user preferences link in the top right-hand menu), but most aren't--including some JS and image URLs, which pretty much breaks the whole UI.  I opened a Trac ticket about this, here:   * http://dev.zenoss.org/trac/ticket/6209  I'm hoping to patch my local Zenoss installations, and if it works, I'll post the patch. But I can't guarantee when I'll have the time to work on it, so you might want to look at handling it, yourself. It looks like most of the page templates (*.pt files) are located in the directory $ZENHOME/Products/ZenModel/skins/zenmodel/, but there may be more. I grepped that dir, alone, and it looks like there are about 100 URLs, spread throughout the templates, that need to be changed. The Trac ticket has some examples of how to make dynamic links, and the Zope docs have more info, if you search them for 'ZPT' (Zope Page Templating).

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