[Spacewalk-list] register systems

[Steve Vargo]

So does that mean that this link is just a link to the documentation (which is not included with spacewalk) 

https://spacewalk.company.com/rhn/help/client-config/en/index.jsp

and doesn't actually give you the ability to register client via the web gui?

Thanks
Steve  

> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:12:58 -0800
> From: mmccune at redhat.com
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] register systems
> 
> m.roth2006 at rcn.com wrote:
> > I log into spacewalk. From the first page, overview, I click on register systems. I get a 404:
> >  The page you requested, /rhn/help/client-config/en/index.jsp, was not found.
> > 
> 
> this is because Spacewalk does not include the online documentation that 
> is included in the commercial product, RHN Satellite.  There going to be 
> lots of places in the GUI that link to the online help docs that you 
> will see generating these 404s.
> 
> > I look in /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out, and see the same message that I mentioned a few weeks ago, when I spoke of hacking around with spacewalk, and was castigated for doing so:
> > Feb 17, 2009 9:06:21 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor
> > WARNING: A docBase /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/rhn inside the host appBase has been specified, and will be ignored
> > 
> > So, unless someone yells at me that there's a good reason not to, that doing so will break something else, I'm going to recursively copy the whole directory to /var/www/html. Last time, I tried symbolic links, and tomcat still complained.
> > 
> 
> that will do nothing for you, see below.
> 
> > Does anyone have a good explanation for a) why the directory's under >/var/lib/tomcat5/webapps, instead of /var/www/html, and b) this wasn't caught long before >the release of 0.4? This time, I have *not*, until now, hacked at the system to make it work, >but this functionality (or lack thereof) is obviously a problem.
> 
> because parts of our webui are served up by Tomcat and parts are served 
> up by Apache.  Everything under /var/www/html is served by apache and 
> everything served by tomcat is in /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps.
> 
> Copying stuff from /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps to /var/www/html won't get 
> you anything.
> 
> Everything under:
> 
> http://yourserver.example.com/rhn/
> 
> is *forwarded* to tomcat by apache.  This is done with a http 
> configuration found here:
> 
> /etc/httpd/conf.d/zz-spacewalk-server.conf
> 
> <IfModule proxy_ajp_module>
>      RewriteEngine on
>      RewriteRule ^/rhn(.*) ajp://localhost:8009/rhn$1 [P]
>      RewriteRule ^(/.*\.(do|jsp)(\?.*)?)$ ajp://localhost:8009/$1 [P]
> 
> This means that *any* url ending in .do or .jsp goes to tomcat as well 
> as anything in the /rhn/ path.  If you copy stuff to /var/www/html/rhn/ 
> it should just get ignored.
> 
> > 
> > Actually, thinking further, I wonder if this was why both methods of registering a system, rhnreg_ks and rhn_register, gave error messages, even though it had succeeded.
> 
> the 404s from the webui's online docs are unrelated to any errors you 
> get from rhnreg_ks or rhn-register, FYI.
> 
> Mike
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