The Delft-FEWS Web OC is distributed as a single page web application. When deployed to a server like Nginx or Tomcat it is required to make sure that all requests are mapped to the index.html page of the web oc. This means that the server will have to redirect all HTTP 404 errors to the index.html. How this can be done is explained per deployment option.
The Delft-FEWS Web OC can be deployed in Tomcat as follows:
In the webapps folder of tomcat, create a directory named: “ROOT”. Unzip the Delft-FEWS Web OC distribution into that folder. Create a subfolder “WEB-INF” in the ROOT folder. Create the file “web.xml” in the WEB-INF folder.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
version="3.0">
<description>Delft-FEWS Web OC</description>
<!-- For the web oc all 404 errors need to redirect to the index.html page. -->
<error-page>
<error-code>404</error-code>
<location>/index.html</location>
</error-page>
</web-app>
Customize the app-config.json file.
After starting tomcat the Delft-FEWS Web OC is available at: http://localhost:8080
Using Azure DevOps a pipeline can be created to build and deploy the Delft-FEWS Web OC. The following is an example of a pipeline: azure-pipelines.yml. To make sure all requests are redirected to the index.html, the following staticwebapp.config.json has to be added to the deployment.
The Delft-FEWS Web OC can be deployed in a Delft-FEWS Standalone as follows”
In the “Modules” folder of the Delft-FEWS Region Home folder, create a directory named: “weboc”. Unzip the Delft-FEWS Web OC distribution into that folder. Create a subfolder “WEB-INF” in the weboc folder (step not required when a full Web OC distribution has been provided by Deltares).
Create the file “web.xml” in the WEB-INF folder (step not required when a full Web OC distribution has been provided by Deltares).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
version="3.0">
<description>Delft-FEWS Web OC</description>
<!-- For the web oc all 404 errors need to redirect to the index.html page. -->
<error-page>
<error-code>404</error-code>
<location>/index.html</location>
</error-page>
</web-app>
Customize the app-config.json file where appropriate.
After starting tomcat using F12+M (embedded servers, start embedded tomcat web services) in the Standalone the Delft-FEWS Web OC is available at: http://localhost:8080. Log message in Delft-FEWS SA:
INFO - StartFewsWebServices.FewsWebServicesEmbeddedTomcatServer.run - The Web OC will be available at: http://localhost:8080.
In order to display Web OC, navigate to http://localhost:8080 in a browser (copy-paste http://localhost:8080 in browser window). Please use a incognito browser window to avoid looking at cached content.
In Nginx the recommended way is to use try_files. See: https://router.vuejs.org/guide/essentials/history-mode.html#nginx
An example Nginx configuration looks as follows:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.html index.htm;
server_name _;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
}
}
unzip the weboc.zip file into the Nginx html folder:
/usr/share/nginx/html/
the WebOC will be available in the root at port 80: http://mynginxserver/
Please note that every user of Web OC requires direct access to the FewsWebServices endpoints by default. If needed, FewsWebServices requests can be re-directed. Please find an apache example below.
# Redirect FewsWebServices requests to local server.
<Location /weboc/fewswebservices>
ProxyPass http://fewswebservices_host_name:port
ProxyPassReverse http://fewswebservices_host_name:port
</Location>