[ZendTo] Re: Probably a stupid questionŠ .

[Gray McCord]

Thanks, John!  I'll give this a try. BTW, when you talk about less
throughput, can you tell about how much? I did notice increased latency when
accessing the proxied site, but haven't run any performance tests once the
link was established.

Thanks again,

Gray



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From: zendto-bounces at zend.to [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] On Behalf Of
John Thurston
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 4:54 PM
To: ZendTo Users
Subject: [ZendTo] Re: Probably a stupid questionŠ .

On 7/12/2013 11:32 AM, Gray McCord wrote:
> I'm trying to run Zendto behind a reverse proxy.  Mostly seems to work 
> with one exception: The home button and home "icon" in the header 
> always return the absolute URL of the system Zendto is running on 
> rather than the proxy-ed address. Everything else seems to act as
expected.
>
> Doing a little digging, I found the variable "$zendTOURL" used to set 
> the home URL in header.tpl.  As a "hack-test", I replaced the 
> reference to the home page's home button  tieh "/", and it worked.
>
> Unfortunately, I have been unable to find where the $zendTOURL 
> variable is actually set to see if I can fix this on my installation.  
> Can anyone tell me where this variable is set when ZendTo loads? Has 
> anyone else had any experience running ZendTo behind an Apache 2.2 reverse
proxy?

I run mine behind such a proxy. It has significantly lower throughput than
hitting it directly, but I like the flexibility.

As I recall, I ran into your problem as well as difficulty trying to publish
ZendTo on a path other than /. I wanted my application to be published at
foo.bar.com/drop/, so on the proxy (foo.bar.com), I have:
   proxypass  /drop   https://zar.bar.com/drop

on my ZendTo instance of apache running on zar.bar.com, I have:
   alias  /drop  /opt/zendto/www
but I _also_ have told apache that its name is foo.bar.com with:
   servername  foo.bar.com

Yes, it is a bit of a hack, but it got the job done.

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John Thurston    907-465-8591
John.Thurston at alaska.gov
Enterprise Technology Services
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State of Alaska
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