Cernunnos/uPortal running in ROOT context of Tomcat

[Andy Gherna]

What are the drawbacks to running Cernunnos/uPortal in the ROOT
context of Tomcat? Drew and I talked about this some months back but
I was wondering if the reasons for not doing it were still the same.

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[Susan Bramhall]

We've been running uPortal in the ROOT contest for years.  What would be the drawbacks?
Susan

Andy Gherna wrote:

What are the drawbacks to running Cernunnos/uPortal in the ROOT
context of Tomcat?  Drew and I talked about this some months back but
I was wondering if the reasons for not doing it were still the same.

  

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[Andy Gherna]

There was something about Attributes.CONTEXT in Cernunnos and the ROOT
context in Tomcat that didn't mix well. Drew, your thoughts?

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Andy Gherna
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[Jason Shao (CampusEAI Consortium)]

Well, I've been burned a couple of times by namespace conflicts between the
root webapp, and other deployed ones... Though those are usually minimal.

I'd say in general, minimal drawbacks to running as root - other portals
(Liferay for example) ship that as their default.

Jason

On 5/2/09 9:50 AM, "Susan Bramhall" <susan.b...@yale.edu> wrote:

> We've been running uPortal in the ROOT contest for years. What would be the
> drawbacks?
> Susan
>
> Andy Gherna wrote:
>>
>> What are the drawbacks to running Cernunnos/uPortal in the ROOT
>> context of Tomcat? Drew and I talked about this some months back but
>> I was wondering if the reasons for not doing it were still the same.
>>
>>

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[Andrew Wills]

Andy,

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Andy Gherna <argh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There was something about Attributes.CONTEXT in Cernunnos and the ROOT
> context in Tomcat that didn't mix well.  Drew, your thoughts?
>

I can't think of any issues with running uPortal (including CRN
elements) just now.

The only components that set Attributes.CONTEXT implicitly are
FileIteratorTask (<file-iterator>) and ArchiveIteratorTask
(<archive-iterator>). You could also set it _explicitly_ with
<with-attribute>, of course.

As long as Tomcat honors the same contract for resource resolution in
the ROOT as it does in a non-root webapp I should think there wouldn't
be an issue.

Please be sure to let me know if you do discover any special concerns
running as the ROOT webapp.

drew