Using Opencast on subdomain
Tom B
Dear opencast-community,
I am currently working on a project from my university that wants to use classroom videos for educational purpose. Because our budget is very limited, we only have one server, with the DNS project.uni-leipzig.de, on which we need to install opencast, moodle and a typo3 landing page.
We would
like the domain structure to be like this.
opencast.project.uni-leipzig.de = for the Opencast instance
moodle.project.uni-leipzig.de = for the moodle instance
project.uni-leipzig.de = for the landing page
Currently we are struggling to find a way to operate opencast on this subdomain. I already found a Google-Groups conversation from 2017 where it was stated that opencast is not meant to run on a subdomain. Is this still the case? If not, which files would need editing to make it work?
I would be grateful for any help regarding this problem.
Regards,
Tom
Maximiliano Lira Del Canto
Tom B
Hi Max, thanks for the quick response, especially this close before Christmas.
I already tried the steps on the site you send but maybe I did something wrong.
1. In nginx sites-enabled create a opencast.conf file in which I copy the http and https setup.
2. Replace example.opencast.org with opencast.project.uni-leipzig.de
3. Add the LetsEncrypt certificate made for project.uni-leipzig.de
4. Restart nginx
5. In /etc/custom.properties change put org.opencastproject.server.url=https://opencast.project.uni-leipzig.de
6. Start activemq then elasticsearch and lastly opencast
Am I missing something? Because when I start opencast the installation isn’t working.
This is the opencast.log I am getting when starting opencast.
Lars Kiesow
I'm assuming you are using Debian or Ubuntu as operating system. That
means the following guide is not exactly the same (I used CentOS as OS)
but it may still help you to see how to install opencast in 30 min:
https://video.ethz.ch/events/opencast/2021/graz/8f1da869-8775-4811-bcf2-84843a780b20.html
The steps on Debian/Ubuntu are more or less ithe same and you may spot
something you have missed.
Apart from that, my two suggestions would be to check if your Opencast
is up and running locally using curl on your server (you should get a
redirect to the login page):
curl -I http://localhost:8080
And to check if your Nginx syntax is correct using:
sudo nginx -t
Best regards,
Lars
PS: The post your are referring to isn't actually about sub-domains but
about sub-paths. E.g. mydomain.com/opencast
Tom B
Hello Lars,
I already installed opencast via this tutorial and on project.uni-leipzig.de its running perfectly fine. But when I change the URL in the installation process to project.uni-leipzig.de/opencast I reach the login-overlay and when I then try to log-in I get a Error 404. I attached some Screenshots.
sudo nginx -t also gives that the build was successful
I also get redirected to the login-page with curl -I http://localhost:8080
One strange behaviour I have is that I go to the login-page with project.uni-leipzig.de/opencast enter admin and password then get the error404 go back re-enter admin and password and then get logged in. But when I then try to reach opencast over project.uni-leipzig.de/opencast again I instantly get the error404. Only when I then delete cookies and website -data in my browser I reach the login-page with project.uni-leipzig.de/opencast again but the cycle repeats.
Regards,
Tom
Lars Kiesow
This makes me wondering, are you actually asking about sub-domains?
This seems like you want to use a sub-path. That's not easily possible.
For example, project.uni-leipzig.de is a dub-domain of the domain
uni-leipzig.de. You would have further sub-domains like
opencast.project.uni-leipzig.de and moodle.project.uni-leipzig.de.
You can also have multiple donains pointing to a single server.
Using that with Opencast is not problem.
It seems though, that you are trying to use sub-paths:
project.uni-leipzig.de/opencast. That's not easily possible and you
would probably need to work with proxy filters which I really wouldn't
recommend and probably involves a lot of work.
–Lars
On Tue, 21 Dec 2021 09:20:00 -0800 (PST)
Tom B
Hi Sven,
Yes, it seems like I got a bit confused there. I want to set it up as a subdomain opencast.project.uni-leipzig.de. I also just realised that I need to make a request to the university to firstly add this subdomain to the domain. After that I should be able to make it work. Sorry about the inconvenience. I think its pretty obvious that I am new to the topic.
Thanks for the help and time you and Max gave me anyway.
Best regards and merry christmas,
Tom