puppetlabs-apache n00b question - docroot value for fully proxied virtual host?

[Paul BH]

Hi there,

pretty new to puppet so I'm guessing this is something simple. I'm trying to set up an apache virtual host that simply acts as a proxy to push all traffic on port 80 to a servlet running on 8080. I have this working on a non puppet managed server with this virtual host:

<VirtualHost *:80>

  ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

  ServerName ci.company.com

  ServerAlias ci

  ProxyRequests Off

  <Proxy *>

    Order deny,allow

    Allow from all

  </Proxy>

  ProxyPreserveHost on

  ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/

</VirtualHost> 

The best I've managed so far using puppet is with this:

apache::vhost { 'ci.spex.com':

  port    => '80',

  proxy_pass => { 'path' => '/', 'url' => 'http://localhost:8080/'},

  docroot => '/some/path',

  default_vhost => true,

}

This works, but I'm curious what value I should set for docroot? As all traffic is proxied, I (believe) the value is irrelevant. Is there a way to tell the puppet module to not write out a docroot?

Cheers!

Paul

[Antoine Cotten]

Unfortunately you can't. This is a restriction of Apache, which requires a docroot value for every vhost, and not of Puppet.

[Hunter Haugen]

Yeah, basically `$docroot` is still a required parameter because historically it was required (apache::vhost didn't do proxy stuff) and was never updated. If you want to make a PR that makes it default to `undef` and then raises helpful errors in cases when it is needed, then that would be great :).

-Hunter

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Antoine Cotten <tonio....@gmail.com> wrote:

Unfortunately you can't. This is a restriction of Apache, which requires a docroot value for every vhost, and not of Puppet.

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[Neil - Puppet List]

Set it to /dev/null ?

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[Paul BH]

Thanks for this guys; sorry I hadn't seen these responses till now...

I'd gladly do a PR, but what would be the situation when its not required? Is it if @proxy_dest or @proxy_pass are set?

Secondly; my setup (running a jenkins box behind apache) also needs these directives set:

AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode

and ProxyPass with the option nocanon:

ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/ nocanon

Should I just add these to the same PR?