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15:28 pdurbin
Fishmongering: the Perl installer was a better experience than the Python installer?
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15:33 nightowl313
hey all ... this is probably a dumb question, but is there a way for me to serve web documents on our dataverse installation? ie: we want to link our policies from the main nav ... i know we can add an html link to the "Guide" and "About" nav menu options (and database settings), but can those html files reside on the dataverse server? I tried the doc root folder, but I probably have to set up apache for that right (or server from another web
15:34 pdurbin
nightowl313: since you're talking about docroot you're close to the answer, I think.
15:36 pdurbin
nightowl313: as a test, can you please try putting a file at docroot/guides/index.html?
15:36 pameyer
yeah - if you've got a web server in front, you should be able to grab the url before glassfish/payara gets it
15:37 pdurbin
That's true, if you have Apache in front you've got more flexibility.
15:39 pdurbin
My understanding is that you don't need Apache if you put files in these 4 directories: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/blob/v5.2/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/glassfish-web.xml#L11-L14
15:40 nightowl313
oh great! that is really helpful (I do look for these things!) ... we have apache but just the default config for ssl
15:40 pameyer
pdurbin: I _think_ that restricts which urls the files will be at
15:41 pameyer
don't know for sure, but I think if you want arbitrary URLs that you'd need to keep them from getting to the app
15:41 pameyer
but I'll defer to your knowledge of jsf url routing, since I have pretty much none
15:41 pdurbin
pameyer: yeah, you're right, it's more of a restriction, really.
15:42 pdurbin
nightowl313: if you want to use Apache to server some files, please check your ProxyPass settings. Right now Apache is probably sending all URL paths to Payara.
15:44 nightowl313
yes, it is ... okay, that makes sense ... thanks! I assume most orgs use a different web server/site for docs just for ease of updating? (ie: I've seen some using wikis or main library website, or libguides)
15:46 pdurbin
I'm not sure. poikilotherm has his own docs.
15:48 nightowl313
okay thanks so much all! that helps a lot
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15:57 poikilotherm
pdurbin nightowl313 happy to share details if interested
15:59 nightowl313
yes share! =)
15:59 donsizemore
@nightowl313 anything you don't want passed to Payara can be a ProxyPass as @pdurbin suggests https://github.com/GlobalDataverseCommunityConsortium/dataverse-ansible/blob/master/templates/http.proxy.conf.j2#L85
16:00 poikilotherm
OK so we are using NGINX as reverse proxy, but that shouldn't bother you doing it with apache
16:00 donsizemore
@nightowl313 similarly if you want to redirect requests somewhere you could redirect that in the Apache VirtualHost before the AJP proxy line
16:01 poikilotherm
We send ^/(logos|branding)/ to a static location (using a gitops deployment of the branding)
16:01 poikilotherm
Also I hacked that to point to my /docroot, which is inside the Glassfish/Payara docroot space
16:02 poikilotherm
This is just to be able to serve the files through both
16:02 poikilotherm
It's a hack. Dataverse is a bit hacky here...
16:02 nightowl313
oh I used dataverse-ansible to set up our site! so my config looks very similary
16:05 nightowl313
similar
16:05 donsizemore
@nightowl313 in Apache or nginx either way, you'll listen in a VirtualHost or a "server" as nginx calls it
16:05 donsizemore
@nightowl313 and peck off each condition that you _don't_ want passed to Payara, which happens at the bottom of the list
16:08 nightowl313
oh yes, i see .. i'm pretty much using this same config that came from the dataverse-ansible templates when I installed
16:09 nightowl313
just need to tweak a few things I think
16:12 nightowl313
Thanks so much!!!
18:45 donsizemore
@pdurbin if ZeroSSL allows *.aws.amazon.com you may finally have your certs on demand https://scotthelme.co.uk/introducing-another-free-ca-as-an-alternative-to-lets-encrypt/
19:16 pdurbin
huh, do you think it's worth a shot?
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20:28 donsizemore
@pdurbin easy way to find out
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