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

[Frederic S. <fre...@gm...>]

On 4/24/07, Kostis Anagnostopoulos <ank...@gm...> wrote:
>
> 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?


No, it will work. By default after looking into the local repo artifactory
try to look in all remote repo from the same URL.

> - 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).


Yes, mod_rewrite will let artifactory configuration intact and clean, and so
enables you to tune your local repositories for read (maven download) and
write (maven deploy).

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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