The Fedora web-application supports several deploy-time, system-level configuration options. These configuration elements can be set using a properties file or through system properties.
Deployments
Four means of deploying Fedora have been verified
- Tomcat 9 servlet container
- Jetty 9 servlet container
- Maven jetty:run plugin - for testing
- One-Click Run - for testing
Each of these deployment approaches has its own way of setting System Properties.
Tomcat 9
On Debian Linux systems, the typical way of setting System Properties is to update the following file:
/etc/default/tomcat9
Within that file, new properties can be added per the example below:
JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -Dfcrepo.home=/mnt/fedora-data"
Additional information regarding the configuration of System Properties in Tomcat 9 can be found here.
Windows notes
Alternatively on Windows systems you can set the following file:
CATALINA_BASE/bin/setenv.bat (windows)
Within that file, new properties can be added per the example below:
set CATALINA_OPTS=%CATALINA_OPTS% -Dfcrepo.home=/mnt/fedora-data
Reverse Proxy
If you have a reverse proxy for serving HTTPS that uses Tomcat's HTTP port, you will also need to set up a RemoteIPValve in your server.xml in order for Tomcat to rewrite links with HTTPS.
To do this you will first need to make sure the X-Forwarded-Proto header is set in your server config (example with Apache):
<VirtualHost *:443>
RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https"
ServerName dummy-host.example.com
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/localhost.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/localhost.key
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/
DocumentRoot "/opt/fedora/apache-tomcat-8.5.66/webapps/fcrepo-webapp"
</VirtualHost>
Then you will need to add a Valve to the localhost Engine in Tomcat's server.xml:
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteIpValve"
protocolHeader="X-Forwarded-Proto" />
Jetty 9
On Debian Linux systems, one way of setting System Properties is to update the following file:
/etc/default/jetty
Within that file, new properties can be added per the example below (note the use of JAVA_OPTIONS instead of JAVA_OPTS):
JAVA_OPTIONS="${JAVA_OPTIONS} -Dfcrepo.home=/mnt/fedora-data"
Additional information regarding the configuration of System Properties in Jetty 9 can be found here.
Windows notes
Alternatively on Windows systems you can set the following file:
{JETTY_DIST}/start.ini
Within that file, new properties can be added per the example below:
--exec -Dfcrepo.home=/mnt/fedora-data Maven jetty:run
System Properties can be set when using the Maven jetty:run plugin by passing them per the example below:
mvn -Dfcrepo.home=/mnt/fedora-data jetty:run
