[Gmod-gbrowse] [Gmod-help] Severe problems to get GBrowse properly running behind ReverseProxy setup

[Wes Barris]

Dave Clements, GMOD Help Desk wrote:
> Rainer,
> 
> I'm forwarding your email to the GBrowse list where others can see it.
>  I have not tried GBrowse 2 with reverse proxy, but I am pretty sure
> we have some users who have.
> 
> Dave C.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Rainer Poehlmann
> <rainer.poehlmann at unibas.ch> wrote:
>> To whom it may concern,
>>
>> we have a customer trying to setup GBrowse on a webserver that is not
>> directly "visible" to the Internet but served through a standard Apache
>> ReverseProxy Setup.
>>
>> With his "old" GBrowse installation (1.63) we managed to get this setup
>> running without problems. Now, the customer is trying to update to the
>> latest GBrowse 2.0 and we fail to get all feature properly displayed BEHIND
>> the ReverseProxy.
>>
>> The setup through the ReverseProxy aims to manage the following scheme:
>>
>> www.outside-server.domain.ch <=> host.inside-server.domain.ch/sub-dir
>>
>> When applying the appropriate syntax within the Apache proxy_module on the
>> outside-server, the GBrowse "core" page is displayed correctly, however
>> certain features served through javascript/Ajax -like "Named gene", "CDS",
>> etc- will fail.
>>
>> The "killer" parameter seems to be the value set as "url_base" in
>> GBrowse.conf. If this is NOT identical on outside- and inside-server -like
>> in our case, "/" vs. "/sub-dir", these funtionalities will fail.
>>
>> Do you maybe have any advice how to overcome this issue? One potential
>> solution seems to be using the same "url_base" configured in GBrowse.conf on
>> outside and inside server ("/sub-dir" -> "/sub-dir")?

Hi Rainer,

I am running a similar (but different) setup with virtual hosts
and one of them being served through a proxy server.  I ended up
fixing a similar problem by simply creating a symbolic link in the
virtual host file space.

I used the error logs to determine what needed to be linked.

>> Any help would be really appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Rainer
>> --
>>
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>> Rainer Poehlmann
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>>
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> 
> 
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