[Ovirt-devel] ports and hostnames for the ovirt server

[Scott Seago]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>
>> 3. Relocate the ipa server so that it's not at the root URL
>> 4. Relocate the ovirt server so that it's not at the root URL
>>     
>
> IMHO, both IPA & oVirt should *not* take over the root URL. All apps
> should default to a private prefix,  /ipa/  and /ovirt/.  When deploying
> in production a simple mod-rewrite  rule can make either app take over
> use of /, simply redirecting to the either /ipa or /ovirt depending
> on which the server admin decides should be the default.
>
>   
In addition to apache rewriting, the webapp may need to know this prefix 
when generating URLs as well. With virt-factory, we did mount the whole 
app at "/vf" and I had to feed this prefix to rails to prepend this to 
generated URLs. Perhaps mod-rewrite can do this as well, but I wasn't 
able to figure that out (although perhaps I was just being dense). Doing 
this in the app did work, but it was a pain, as we had to prepend the 
prefix all over the place.
> The FreeIPA  config file is fundamentally broken since it assumes it is
> the only app living in the apache server. This needs to be fixed so that
> they play nicely with other apps. This means living under /ipa/ and having
> an optional redirect from / at the site administrators discretion.
>
> Dan.
>   
The ovirt config suffers from this same problem currently.

Scott