Re: [Geoserver-users] Geoserver and NAT

[Gabriel R. <gr...@op...>]

I beleave there's no good how-to wiki page about this, but look at
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-1655 and 
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-1918 for an explanation on how the 
reverse proxy filter and the proxy base url parameter work.

Gabriel


On Wednesday 03 December 2008 08:36:14 Andrea Aime wrote:
> Arne Kepp ha scritto:
> > Sure, it's only a matter of concern for the user interface, for the
> > following reason:
> >
> > If proxying is all setup, and you proxy,
> > http://yourhostname/some_other_name to http://localhost:8080/geoserver,
> >
> > then your client makes a request for a page, say
> > http://yourhostname/some_other_name/Demo.do
> >
> > But what GeoServer receives is a request for
> > http://localhost:8080/geoserver/Demo.do , since Apache has rewritten it.
> >
> > GeoServer's current UI makes URL with absolute pathnames. So when it
> > sees that the request URL was http://localhost:8080/geoserver/Demo.do ,
> > It'll return a page that has links to things like /geoserver/style.css
> >
> > When the client takes this path from the returned webpage, and asks
> > Apache for http://yourhostname/geoserver/style.css , it'll get a 404
> > because Apache doesn't know what to do with it. This will happen with
> > images etc, so the UI becomes pretty useless.
>
> Actually I believe Gabriel solved this issue months ago by creating
> a proxy filter that rewrites the urls in the UI on the fly.
> Not sure this is documented anywhere thought...
>
> Cheers
> Andrea