Starting with GWT 1.5.3 it is not possible to read data from other servers than local. It makes development a bit tedious since if one was to do a test run of an app it would have to be first compiled (which takes sooo long) and then transferred to the server that all the XMLHttpRequest would be going to. Obviously we need some kind of proxy that will help us to fool the browser. Apache mod proxy fits great. Not to have repeat the same installation and configuration procedure on our all development machines I have created a VMWare vm that contains all the necessary things. Below are the steps that I followed.
- Configure NAT interface for VMWare 192.168.100.1/255.255.255.0 (on host machine)
- Install Ubuntu server 8.10
- Configure /etc/network/interfaces
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.100.3
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.100.2
- sudo apt-get install apache2
- Enable http proxy module
a2enmod proxy_http - Enable virtual hosts
a2enmod vhost_alias - Allow connections to proxy from all hosts (for convenience) in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/proxy.conf
AddDefaultCharset off
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
#Allow from .example.com
Allow from all
- Enable proxy mapping by adding /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/010-proxy:
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin spam@poland.pl ServerName gwtproxy.poland.pl ServerAlias gwtproxy ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/gwtproxy.poland.pl-error_log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/gwtproxy.poland.pl-access_log common ProxyPass /pl.poland.cube.Cube http://192.168.100.1:8888/pl.poland.cube.Cube ProxyPassReverse /pl.poland.cube.Cube http://192.168.100.1:8888/pl.poland.cube.Cube ProxyPass /alfresco http://repo.cube.poland.pl:1030/alfresco ProxyPassReverse /alfresco http://repo.cube.poland.pl:1030/alfresco DocumentRoot /var/www </VirtualHost> - Add to /etc/hosts (on host machine):
192.168.100.3 gwtproxy gwtproxy.mxts.pl - Edit run configuration in Intellij Idea
When run the hosted browser should run app via proxy and it should be possible to read data from http://gwtproxy/alfresco/* which is actually on completely different server.
Sources
Solution on google groups
