installing jforum in a sub directory

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I want to install jforum as a sub directory

like
http://localhost/boards/
so urls will look like

http://localhost/boards/posts...
http://localhost/boards/forums...

I don't want it to be a separate webapp. What is a good way to do that?

paul


[originally posted on jforum.net by subpaul]

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It won't work. JForum should be in the context's root. This can be improved in the future, but currently, there is no simple solution.

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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I hate making the app think different.. but.. do you think i can do it by having the app writing a value for the contextPath that can be used in templates? Maybe a central place I can do that at..

do you see it possible?

paul

[originally posted on jforum.net by subpaul]

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As of the refactoring I'm currently doing, much probably it will be possible to put the templates, images, upload tmp and other directories into a subdiretory (WEB-INF stuff should be in the root context).

I say "probably" because I didn't tested it yet.

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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What do you want actually?
Just to have forum links ike your said (http://localhost/boards/posts/ etc..) or to have site and forum in a signle webapp?

In first case, if you are using Apache+Tomcat, you can have 2 webbapps, and then use apache-tomcat connector and configure alias "/boards/" to the forum webapp

[originally posted on jforum.net by gst]

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Hey Rafael

From what I'm reading, I think you are saying that JForum will not run as nested webapp.

Currently I have my web-site application running on one webapp with one port, and jforum in another webapp in another port.

I want to run nest Jforum within my web-site app. That means nesting web-apps. Can this be done?

Thanks. (BTW great job and thanks for sharing your work) I have jforum running on Oracle Container For J2EE (OC4J) and an oracle 9i database. I made a couple of small changes, and will post them as soon I can get jforum finalized. Thanks again!
[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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Well, you can put jforum in the same context of your application, but you will need to follow the directory structure - eg, the "templates" and "images" dir should be in the root directory, the "config" dir should be in the WEB-INF dir and so on.

Please share your oracle changes when possible . I want to release version 2.1.5 with it!

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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Hello there,

You could always use a different context but run it under the same Tomcat, in the same port. It would be just a question of modifying the Tomcat configuration to add a context for JForum.

I think that would be safer than mixing JForum with another application inside the same context, as depending on the libraries you use, you could ran into conflicts.

My 2ec,
D.
[originally posted on jforum.net by GreenEyed]