[ckan-dev] CKAN on dispatched app server

Thu Sep 29 15:13:16 UTC 2011

On 29.09.11 16:34, David Read wrote:
> 
> 
> On 29 September 2011 14:23, Florian Marienfeld
> <florian.marienfeld at fokus.fraunhofer.de
> <mailto:florian.marienfeld at fokus.fraunhofer.de>> wrote:
> 
>     Hey,
> 
>     has any one dispatched calls from a web server to CKAN machine based on
>     the URL?
> 
>     The idea is to tell one internet-visible host to proxy-pass http calls
>     that ask for http://webserver/ckan to http://ckan-server/ . I adjusted
>     ckan.site_url accordingly, but this does not effect links: Package will
>     link still link to http://webserver/package instead of
>     http//webserver/ckan/package.
> 
> 
> So browsers talk to Server A, which passes requests onto Server B which
> is running CKAN. The problem is that the page is returned with links
> that go directly to Server B, but you want them to go via Server A?

kind of: the links do not have the path prefix /ckan/ which triggers the
dispatching

> Most internal CKAN links are just relative though. e.g. "/dataset". I'm
> surprised the browser is using the domain of Server B rather than of
> Server A, because the proxy is passing it the page. Perhaps someone else
> knows about this? Perhaps it's something to do with the proxy setup?

The domain is constant. I was kind of expecting that the links were not
relative but prefixed with ${site_url}. but you know what, I will try to
fiddle in a <base>-tag.

Thanks in any event!

Best,

FLO

> 
> David
> 
> 
>     Is there a way to configure this properly, or work around?
> 
>     This is ckan 1.4.2a as through APT.
> 
>     Best regards,
> 
>     FLO
> 
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>     Florian Marienfeld
>     Dipl.-Ing. Tech.-Inf.
> 
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