Descriptor homepage does not work

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#1

Hi,

I configured the homepage into Global Administration - Wikis - Descriptor - Homepage.

If I click to the XWiki logo in the top left corner of the Wiki it works and I am redirected to the configured homepage (https://xwiki.my.domain/XWiki/Welcome), but if I go to XWiki at https://xwiki.my.domain I still see the default welcome page (“Welcome to your wiki” - “The basics”).

I configured short URLS using information from https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/AdminGuide/ShortURLs/ with UrlRewriteFilter.

How could I solve and redirect https://xwiki.my.domain to https://xwiki.my.domain/XWiki/Welcome?

Thanks!

#2

Hi, could you help me on this problem?
I think this could be a bug, could you help me please?
Thanks!

#3

Hi, it’s unlikely that this is a bug. It’s more likely that you have some errors in your urlrewritefilter configuration. Without knowing more what you did it’s hard to help you.

#4

I enabled UrlRewriteFilter as descripted at https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/AdminGuide/ShortURLs/#HUrlRewriteFilter.

I added this into web.xml after <description>XWiki Application</description>:

  <!-- URL Rewrite Filters: http://www.tuckey.org/urlrewrite/ -->
  <filter>
    <filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter</filter-class>
  </filter>
  <filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
    <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
  </filter-mapping>

Then I addedd a /var/lib/tomcat9/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/urlrewrite.xml file with the following code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE urlrewrite PUBLIC "-//tuckey.org//DTD UrlRewrite 4.0//EN"
        "http://www.tuckey.org/res/dtds/urlrewrite4.0.dtd">
<urlrewrite decode-using="null">

  <rule>
    <note>
     Ensure that URLs ending with .gwtrpc are not modified.
     Note: Not needed with XWiki 9.7+ since the GWT editor has been removed.
    </note>
    <from>^/(.*)\.gwtrpc$</from>
    <to type="forward" last="true">-</to>
  </rule>

  <rule>
    <note>
      Ensure that URLs that must not be served by the Struts Servlet are not modified.
    </note>
    <from>^/((bin|resources|skins|asyncrenderer|rest|webdav|xmlrpc|wiki|webjars)/(.*)|robots\.txt)$</from>  
    <to type="forward" last="true">-</to>
  </rule>

  <rule>
    <note>
      For all other URLs we prepend the "/bin/" prefix so that they get routed to the XWiki Action Servlet.
    </note>
    <from>^/(.*)$</from>
    <to type="forward">/bin/$1</to>
  </rule>

  <outbound-rule>
    <note>
      Rewrite outbound URLs to remove the "/bin" part when there are two paths after it.
    </note>
    <from>/bin/(.*)/(.*)$</from>
    <to>/$1/$2</to>
  </outbound-rule>

  <outbound-rule>
    <note>
      Rewrite outbound URLs to remove the "/bin" part when there's a single path after it.
    </note>
    <from>/bin/(.*)$</from>
    <to>/$1</to>
  </outbound-rule>

  <outbound-rule>
    <note>
      Rewrite outbound URLs to remove the "/bin" part it's the last path.
    </note>
    <from>/bin$</from>
    <to>/</to>
  </outbound-rule>

</urlrewrite>

That’s all.

#5

This seems to indicate that you deployed XWiki under the xwiki servlet context. So how do you rewrite from the ROOT context to the xwiki context?

#6

I’m rewriting on Apache2 in the VirtualHost configuration:

# XWiki
<Location />
        ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:8080/xwiki/
        ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:8080/xwiki/
        Require all granted
</Location>

I made this because I had some problems in moving XWiki from the xwiki to the ROOT context in Tomcat.