problem testing api rest

[Pablo Buenaposada]

Hi, I'am testing the rest api in dspace 4.5 but I cannot make it work.
I have added this:

<Context path="/rest" docBase="dspace/webapps/rest" reloadable="true"/>

to my tomcat server.xml, but when I request www.mydspace.com/rest the page loads until gets a timeout.
Nothing printed in apache/tomcat/dsapce logs.
I can see the folder rest under my dspace build (dspace/webapps/rest).
Any hint?

[Bruno Nocera Zanette]

Hey, Pablo!

It's hard to tell what's wrong, specially because you're doing a non-convencional installation, with tomcat+apache. Other apps are running?

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[Pablo Buenaposada]

Hi, already found the problem.
When timeout appears on the browser I noticed that the url was https which is strange as I am not working with https now...
So, searching in the net I have seen in the documentation of version 5 that SSL code block in web.xml can cause problems getting started.
In the documentation of version 4 this is not mentioned.
Commenting this block rest started to work, I should go more deep into SSL if I decided to use rest in production.

[Pablo Buenaposada]

just curious, apache+tomcat is something non-convencional???

[Bruno Nocera Zanette]

Hey! Nice! I thought about the https, but as version 4.x doesn't use it i ignored it.

About tomcat+apache, it is kinda non-convencional if compared to what it says on dspace installation guide. When apache comes into the game, there are more space for errors and misconfigurations. That's what i meant. But of cours, it is an extremely common/used combo.

[Marcelo Caceres]

Thanks Pablo, I comment section "Security settings and mapping" and restarting tomcat the service is available.