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Bug 445693

Summary:	[server] WelcomeFileFilter is not working inside an application container
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Anthony Hunter <ahunter.eclipse>
Component:	Server	Assignee:	Anthony Hunter <ahunter.eclipse>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	9.0
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Anthony Hunter

2014-10-01 12:22:59 EDT

We have a WelcomeFileFilter that looks for a directory URL ending in / and adds index.html. This is supposed to result in a eventual redirect to edit/edit.html though code in index.js.

This fails in an application container with a content root.

As an example, with a context root of "/code" for orion http://example.com:8080/code should redirect to http://example.com:8080/code/edit/edit.html 

There is an error 404 trying to load https://example.com:8080/requirejs/require.js and as a result you get a white blank page.

http://example.com:8080/code/ does work as it is not using the WelcomeFileFilter.

I should also note that WelcomeFileFilter is processing all of our http request calls on the server, when only one call to / needs this filter, so not sure this is the best design. I cannot find any other place where WelcomeFileFilter is used.

Comment 1 Anthony Hunter

2014-11-20 12:21:43 EST

(In reply to Anthony Hunter from comment #0)
> There is an error 404 trying to load
> https://example.com:8080/requirejs/require.js and as a result you get a
> white blank page.

I raised this bug a while back but its importance is increased. One of our clients went to /code, saw the white blank page, thought the server was down and then restarted the server multiple times.

Comment 2 Anthony Hunter

2015-04-08 11:58:52 EDT

(In reply to Anthony Hunter from comment #0)
> We have a WelcomeFileFilter that looks for a directory URL ending in / and
> adds index.html. This is supposed to result in a eventual redirect to
> edit/edit.html though code in index.js.
> 
> This fails in an application container with a content root.
> 
> As an example, with a context root of "/code" for orion
> http://example.com:8080/code should redirect to
> http://example.com:8080/code/edit/edit.html 
> 
> There is an error 404 trying to load
> https://example.com:8080/requirejs/require.js and as a result you get a
> white blank page.
> 
> http://example.com:8080/code/ does work as it is not using the
> WelcomeFileFilter.

This is not correct. In this case, since the context root is /code we require the setting in orion.conf:
orion.context.path = /code

Once I add this setting the error 404 no longer occurs and the redirect works correctly.

> I should also note that WelcomeFileFilter is processing all of our http
> request calls on the server, when only one call to / needs this filter, so
> not sure this is the best design. I cannot find any other place where
> WelcomeFileFilter is used.

I raised Bug 464179 for this issue, WelcomeFileFilter only handles /.