Re: [Artifactory-users] Is possible to change the URL path the artifactory is binding on?

[Kostis A. <ank...@gm...>]

On 4/24/07, Frederic Simon <fre...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
> Interesting idea...
> First playing with the war file name and renaming it maven-proxy.war and
> changing the jetty.xml declaration if you are using jetty should work. I
> don't remember any constraints on the context path of artifactory war.
> Second, the main issue is with the path after. One of the first feature we
> added to artifactory compare to maven-proxy is the multi-repositories
> management in one war. So the name after artifactory is the name of the
> repository inside artifactory you want to access. And here the default one
> (aggregate all local and remote repos) is hardcoded "repo" (next version 1.3
> should solve this with alias management).
> So, there are 2 solutions:
> - You use only one local repo named "repository" and it should work. But you
> can never split deployment repositories.

But then Artifactory won't be possible to function as a proxy to other
remote repositories, would it?

> - Using apache mod_rewrite for transforming "repository" into "repo". So, no
> need to change the war.
>
> Anyway, in all cases you will not use the feature of multi local
> repositories which I think is a nice one...

I think mod_rewrite, in principal, allows us to have multi-local repos
(and remote proxying).

Am i missing something here?



Admiration for your excellent response time,
  Kostis

>
> Good luck.
>
>
> On 4/24/07, ankostis <ank...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are currently switching from codehaus's maven-proxy into artifactory.
> >
> > We would like to reuse the URL where we had installed maven-proxy, so the
> > switch would be completely transparent to the client builders (not event
> > overriding repositories with settings.xml).
> >
> > So, lets say that the maven0prosy were listening on:
> >   http://server.com/maven-proxy/repository
> >
> > In order to make the Artifactory listen on the above URL, we can either:
> >
> > 1) Use apache mod_rewrite (is it OK?), or
> > 2) Fiddle included .war to assign different context (is it possible?)
> >
> > Is this line of thinking correct?
> >
> > Any help on the second alternative would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you for your efforts,
> >   Kostis
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