Instiki
Proxying (changes)

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While it’s terribly convenient that Instiki comes with its own built-in webserver, there are some drawbacks:

• Perhaps your organization has firewalled Port 2500.
• Perhaps you simply want a “cleaner” URL for your Wiki, without the port number included.

Whatever the reason, the easiest “step up” from a vanilla Instiki installation is to set up Apache to proxy for Instiki. This website is run that way. Below are the configuration directives to set up proxying.

In your httpd.conf file, enable proxying

 <IfModule mod_proxy.c>
  ProxyRequests Off
  <Proxy *>
    Require all granted
  </Proxy>
 </IfModule>

Then, for each wiki you want to proxy (e.g., this one):

  <Location /instiki>    Require all granted    ProxyPass  http://golem.ph.utexas.edu:2500/instiki http://127.0.0.1:2500/instiki    ProxyPassReverse  http://golem.ph.utexas.edu:2500/instiki    ProxyPassReverseCookieDomain golem.ph.utexas.edu golem.ph.utexas.edu    ProxyPassReverseCookiePath / /instiki/  </Location>

In addition, you need to proxy the following directories (common to all your Wikis):

  <Location /stylesheets>    Require all granted    ProxyPass  http://golem.ph.utexas.edu:2500/stylesheets http://127.0.0.1:2500/stylesheets    ProxyPassReverse  http://golem.ph.utexas.edu:2500/stylesheets  </Location>   <Location /s5>    Require all granted    ProxyPass  http://golem.ph.utexas.edu:2500/s5 http://127.0.0.1:2500/s5    ProxyPassReverse  http://golem.ph.utexas.edu:2500/s5  </Location>   <Location /javascripts>    Require all granted    ProxyPass  http://golem.ph.utexas.edu:2500/javascripts http://127.0.0.1:2500/javascripts    ProxyPassReverse  http://golem.ph.utexas.edu:2500/javascripts </Location>  <Location /create_web>   Require all granted   ProxyPass  http://golem.ph.utexas.edu:2500/create_web http://127.0.0.1:2500/create_web   ProxyPassReverse  http://golem.ph.utexas.edu:2500/create_web   ProxyPassReverseCookieDomain golem.ph.utexas.edu golem.ph.utexas.edu </Location>

Please note that these instructions were for Apache 2.3.x. For Apache 2.2.x and earlier, replace the lines

 Require all granted

with

 Order Allow,Deny
 Allow from all

The same proxying recipe works, whether you use the built-in WEBrick server or Mongrel.