How to get rid of /otrs/ in your URI

[solefald]

Hello,

This message is a cross-post from the Help forum, but I figured it deserves its own post, because i did not find this information anywhere and it may be useful for someone else.
Here is how to remove "/otrs/" from your URI, retaining all functionality and making DirectoryIndex work, so you dont have to type index.pl every time.

OTRS Config settings:
Framework -> Core -> ScriptAlias needs to be blank.

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$Self->{ScriptAlias} = '';

Apache otrs.conf changes:

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Alias /otrs-web/ "/opt/otrs/var/httpd/htdocs/"
Alias / "/opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/"


Notice that Alias and ScriptAlias order has changed with Alias now on top, and ScriptAlias became Alias.

Location section below is no longer needed, because it will break all CSS and jQuery, so you can just comment the whole thing out

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# <Location /otrs>
#       ErrorDocument 403 /otrs/customer.pl
#        ErrorDocument 403 /otrs/index.pl
#        DirectoryIndex index.pl
#        SetHandler  perl-script
#        PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
#        Options +ExecCGI
#        PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
#        PerlOptions +SetupEnv
#        Order allow,deny
#        Allow from all
# </Location>


Commenting out <Location> directive will disable mod_perl, so to re-enable it we need to copy needed directives into the <Directory /opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/> section and change SetHandler to AddHandler.

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<Directory "/opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/">
    AllowOverride None
    Options +ExecCGI -Includes
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    #
    # Below is what we copied from the <Location> section
    # 
    ErrorDocument 403 /index.pl
    DirectoryIndex index.pl
    AddHandler  perl-script .pl .cgi     <----- change ScriptHandler setting here.
    PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
    PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
    PerlOptions +SetupEnv
</Directory>


Change DocumentRoot in your virtual host config (NOT otrs.conf) to

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DocumentRoot /opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/

Restart apache and you should be good.
No errors in the logs, and going to http://otrs.example.com takes you straight to the OTRS Agent login screen.


I hope this helps.

[dylan650]

or assuming you don't have anything else running on your web server, just add this line to your index.html file. If you don't have an index.html, just create one.

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=./otrs/customer.pl">

This tells your web server that when he sees any hits come in, redirect them to /otrs/customer.pl.

If you do this, you won't have to muck around with any other configuration.

[solefald]

or assuming you don't have anything else running on your web server, just add this line to your index.html file. If you don't have an index.html, just create one.

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=./otrs/customer.pl">

This tells your web server that when he sees any hits come in, redirect them to /otrs/customer.pl.

If you do this, you won't have to muck around with any other configuration.

Your method does not get rid of /otrs/ in the URL. All you do is redirect a user to another page.
I like to keep my URLS clean, so having a URL look like http://otrs.domain.com/otrs/ is a half-assed approach.

[schweppers]

Hello,

This message is a cross-post from the Help forum, but I figured it deserves its own post, because i did not find this information anywhere and it may be useful for someone else.
Here is how to remove "/otrs/" from your URI, retaining all functionality and making DirectoryIndex work, so you dont have to type index.pl every time.

OTRS Config settings:
Framework -> Core -> ScriptAlias needs to be blank.

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$Self->{ScriptAlias} = '';

Apache otrs.conf changes:

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Alias /otrs-web/ "/opt/otrs/var/httpd/htdocs/"
Alias / "/opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/"


Notice that Alias and ScriptAlias order has changed with Alias now on top, and ScriptAlias became Alias.

Location section below is no longer needed, because it will break all CSS and jQuery, so you can just comment the whole thing out

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# <Location /otrs>
#       ErrorDocument 403 /otrs/customer.pl
#        ErrorDocument 403 /otrs/index.pl
#        DirectoryIndex index.pl
#        SetHandler  perl-script
#        PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
#        Options +ExecCGI
#        PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
#        PerlOptions +SetupEnv
#        Order allow,deny
#        Allow from all
# </Location>


Commenting out <Location> directive will disable mod_perl, so to re-enable it we need to copy needed directives into the <Directory /opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/> section and change SetHandler to AddHandler.

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<Directory "/opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/">
    AllowOverride None
    Options +ExecCGI -Includes
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    #
    # Below is what we copied from the <Location> section
    # 
    ErrorDocument 403 /index.pl
    DirectoryIndex index.pl
    AddHandler  perl-script .pl .cgi     <----- change ScriptHandler setting here.
    PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
    PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
    PerlOptions +SetupEnv
</Directory>


Change DocumentRoot in your virtual host config (NOT otrs.conf) to

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DocumentRoot /opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/

Restart apache and you should be good.
No errors in the logs, and going to http://otrs.example.com takes you straight to the OTRS Agent login screen.


I hope this helps.

Hello,

any idea how to make it on nginx webserver ?

[BigTex]

Hello,

This message is a cross-post from the Help forum, but I figured it deserves its own post, because i did not find this information anywhere and it may be useful for someone else.
Here is how to remove "/otrs/" from your URI, retaining all functionality and making DirectoryIndex work, so you dont have to type index.pl every time.

OTRS Config settings:
Framework -> Core -> ScriptAlias needs to be blank.

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$Self->{ScriptAlias} = '';

Apache otrs.conf changes:

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Alias /otrs-web/ "/opt/otrs/var/httpd/htdocs/"
Alias / "/opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/"


Notice that Alias and ScriptAlias order has changed with Alias now on top, and ScriptAlias became Alias.

Location section below is no longer needed, because it will break all CSS and jQuery, so you can just comment the whole thing out

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# <Location /otrs>
#       ErrorDocument 403 /otrs/customer.pl
#        ErrorDocument 403 /otrs/index.pl
#        DirectoryIndex index.pl
#        SetHandler  perl-script
#        PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
#        Options +ExecCGI
#        PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
#        PerlOptions +SetupEnv
#        Order allow,deny
#        Allow from all
# </Location>


Commenting out <Location> directive will disable mod_perl, so to re-enable it we need to copy needed directives into the <Directory /opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/> section and change SetHandler to AddHandler.

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<Directory "/opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/">
    AllowOverride None
    Options +ExecCGI -Includes
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    #
    # Below is what we copied from the <Location> section
    # 
    ErrorDocument 403 /index.pl
    DirectoryIndex index.pl
    AddHandler  perl-script .pl .cgi     <----- change ScriptHandler setting here.
    PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
    PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
    PerlOptions +SetupEnv
</Directory>


Change DocumentRoot in your virtual host config (NOT otrs.conf) to

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DocumentRoot /opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/

Restart apache and you should be good.
No errors in the logs, and going to http://otrs.example.com takes you straight to the OTRS Agent login screen.


I hope this helps.

I appreciate your post and I am certainly interested in implementing this, but I cannot find which files that you are talking about modifying. Can you please be more specific for us newbies???

[BigTex]

Hello,

This message is a cross-post from the Help forum, but I figured it deserves its own post, because i did not find this information anywhere and it may be useful for someone else.
Here is how to remove "/otrs/" from your URI, retaining all functionality and making DirectoryIndex work, so you dont have to type index.pl every time.

OTRS Config settings:
Framework -> Core -> ScriptAlias needs to be blank.

Code: Select all

$Self->{ScriptAlias} = '';

Apache otrs.conf changes:

Code: Select all

Alias /otrs-web/ "/opt/otrs/var/httpd/htdocs/"
Alias / "/opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/"


Notice that Alias and ScriptAlias order has changed with Alias now on top, and ScriptAlias became Alias.

Location section below is no longer needed, because it will break all CSS and jQuery, so you can just comment the whole thing out

Code: Select all

# <Location /otrs>
#       ErrorDocument 403 /otrs/customer.pl
#        ErrorDocument 403 /otrs/index.pl
#        DirectoryIndex index.pl
#        SetHandler  perl-script
#        PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
#        Options +ExecCGI
#        PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
#        PerlOptions +SetupEnv
#        Order allow,deny
#        Allow from all
# </Location>


Commenting out <Location> directive will disable mod_perl, so to re-enable it we need to copy needed directives into the <Directory /opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/> section and change SetHandler to AddHandler.

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<Directory "/opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/">
    AllowOverride None
    Options +ExecCGI -Includes
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    #
    # Below is what we copied from the <Location> section
    # 
    ErrorDocument 403 /index.pl
    DirectoryIndex index.pl
    AddHandler  perl-script .pl .cgi     <----- change ScriptHandler setting here.
    PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
    PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
    PerlOptions +SetupEnv
</Directory>


Change DocumentRoot in your virtual host config (NOT otrs.conf) to

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DocumentRoot /opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/

Restart apache and you should be good.
No errors in the logs, and going to http://otrs.example.com takes you straight to the OTRS Agent login screen.


I hope this helps.

Hello, can you kindly be more specific about which files to modify for us newbies. i.e. - filenames, etc.

[bleitner]

After making this change what is the URL to get to the customer login?

[pandaketawa]

i got this error, when follow above step

root@ticketing:~# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Syntax error on line 56 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/otrs.conf:
Invalid command 'PerlResponseHandler', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
Action 'configtest' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
failed!


any suggest ?

[reneeb]

Do you have mod_perl installed?

[denbagusjkt]

i follow all your instruction, but if while accessing my server with url http://myserver/ always getting 404 not found error page, because always redirected to /otrs/index.pl. but if i try to accessing http://"myserver"/index.pl its work perfectly.

[solefald]

i follow all your instruction, but if while accessing my server with url http://myserver/ always getting 404 not found error page, because always redirected to /otrs/index.pl. but if i try to accessing http://"myserver"/index.pl its work perfectly.

This means that you did not really followed my instructions and missed following line:

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  DirectoryIndex index.pl


[averlon]

Hi solefald,

I am keen to go to such a solution with a virtual host. Looking around in the web I did currently not find any working.

Since nearly every setup is a little bit different, there probable need to be some adjustments in the one or other case.

For example in my environment the host otrs is installed on does also host some other webpages/applications.

I am not realy an export. I guess, to run your configuration together with other virtual hosts there needs to be somethin in addition.

What do you think. Would this do it? It does not work in my environment but I also did not find any error messages except the page could not be found.

The installation location is different in my case.

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<VirtualHost *:80>

DocumentRoot "/var/www/av_otrs/bin/cgi-bin/"
ServerName ticket.av.loc

Alias /otrs-web/ "/var/www/av_otrs/var/httpd/htdocs/"
Alias / "/var/www/av_otrs/bin/cgi-bin/"

<Directory "/var/www/av_otrs/bin/cgi-bin">
   AllowOverride None
   Options +ExecCGI -Includes
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all

   ErrorDocument 403 /index.pl
   DirectoryIndex index.pl
   AddHandler  perl-script .pl .cgi
   PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
   PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
   PerlOptions +SetupEnv
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Any suggestions?

[ZzynxX]

Hye, thanks for the post, but can you be more specific on which file do i need to modified, I am really new with this. I have followed your instruction, searching for the file but I'm still not sure if I modified the right file, help me please.. T.T
and i can't seem to find where is the DocumentRoot

[eXo]

After some time trying to make this work, This is what made it happen:

1 - I copied /etc/apache2/conf.d/otrs2 config file to /var/www/apache2/sites-available/otrs
2 - I modified the configuration file to make it a Virtual Host
3 - I made a few changes to the suggestions made here to make it work

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NameVirtualHost 1.2.3.4:443
<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:443>
        ServerAdmin address@hidden.xxx
        Servername site.hidden.xxx
        DocumentRoot /opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/

            SSLEngine on
            SSLCertificateFile "xxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
            SSLCertificateKeyFile "xxxxxxxxxxxxx"


# agent, admin and customer frontend
Alias /otrs-web/ "/opt/otrs/var/httpd/htdocs/"
Alias / "/opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/"

# directory settings
<Directory "/opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/">
    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
    AllowOverride None
    Options +ExecCGI -Includes
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

<IfModule mod_perl.c>
      # load all otrs modules
      Perlrequire /opt/otrs/scripts/apache2-perl-startup.pl

      # Apache::Reload - Reload Perl Modules when Changed on Disk
      PerlModule Apache2::Reload
      PerlInitHandler Apache2::Reload
      PerlModule Apache2::RequestRec

      ErrorDocument 403 /index.pl
      DirectoryIndex index.pl
      AddHandler perl-script .cgi .pl
      PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
      Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks
      PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
      PerlOptions +SetupEnv
    </IfModule>

</Directory>

<Directory "/opt/otrs/var/httpd/htdocs/">
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
    <Directory "/opt/otrs/var/httpd/htdocs/skins/*/*/css-cache">
        <FilesMatch "\.(css|CSS)$">
            Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000 must-revalidate"
        </FilesMatch>
    </Directory>

    <Directory "/opt/otrs/var/httpd/htdocs/js/js-cache">
        <FilesMatch "\.(js|JS)$">
            Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000 must-revalidate"
        </FilesMatch>
    </Directory>
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>


Probably some mistakes there and double configurations, but i really don't know what I'm doing, it was a bit of trial and error seasoned with a bit of documentation.
Bottom line, it works, no more /otrs and no more trying to download the index.pl because it was not executing

[davet]

Thanks eXo

I had to comment the <IfModule mod_perl.c> section because of errors when restarting apache

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service httpd restart
Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 274 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:
Perlrequire directive not allowed in a <Directory> block
                                                           [FAILED]
[root@mnvotrs conf.d]#
[root@mnvotrs conf.d]# service httpd restart
Stopping httpd:                                            [FAILED]
Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 277 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:
PerlModule directive not allowed in a <Directory> block
                                                           [FAILED]
[root@otrs conf.d]#
[root@otrs conf.d]# service httpd restart
Stopping httpd:                                            [FAILED]
Starting httpd:                                            [  OK  ]


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      # load all otrs modules
      #Perlrequire /opt/otrs/scripts/apache2-perl-startup.pl

      # Apache::Reload - Reload Perl Modules when Changed on Disk
      #PerlModule Apache2::Reload
      #PerlInitHandler Apache2::Reload
      #PerlModule Apache2::RequestRec
     
      ErrorDocument 403 /index.pl
      DirectoryIndex index.pl
      AddHandler perl-script .cgi .pl
      PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
      Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks
      PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
      PerlOptions +SetupEnv
    </IfModule>



You would normally do your NameVirtualHost settings like so - it only needs to match the servername from the URL

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NameVirtualHost *:443
<VirtualHost *:443>
Servername your.otrs.servername
etc


Now it ruins beautifully with https://otrs

[ITfromScratch]

There was not a VirtualHost file for my OTRS installation (Ubuntu Server 12.04) so I created one by somewhat following this article.

I used this code to create the file:

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sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/otrs

I put this in the file:

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<VirtualHost *>
     ServerName [enter server name]
     DocumentRoot /opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/
</VirtualHost>

Then I changed to the sites-enabled folder:

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cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled

And then added a symlink to the sites-available file:

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ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/otrs

This walkthrough does make OTRS available without "/otrs/" in the URL, but you can still navigate to OTRS with "/otrs/" in the URL.

My next step is to create an Apache redirect rule that will make everyone use the non-"/otrs/" URL.

[TBird]

Someone can be more specific. I don`t understand what i need to copy and where to paste

" Commenting out <Location> directive will disable mod_perl, so to re-enable it we need to copy needed directives into the <Directory /opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/> section and change SetHandler to AddHandler. "



Please ?:P

[kalyana1315]

Someone can be more specific. I don`t understand what i need to copy and where to paste

" Commenting out <Location> directive will disable mod_perl, so to re-enable it we need to copy needed directives into the <Directory /opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/> section and change SetHandler to AddHandler. "



Please ?:P

Path:

1 \OTRS\scripts\apache2-httpd.include.conf
2 \OTRS\Apache\conf\httpd.conf

[cbruigom]

Hi There,

I would like to confirm if this post still applies to OTRS 4? I have made the changes as per the original post and can now access OTRS without having to type in /otrs/index.pl however there are additional lines within the otrs.conf that are delivered with OTRS 4 that are not referenced in the original post.

In my otrs.conf Directory section also have:

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<Directory "/opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/">
     Options +ExecCGI -Includes


In the location section however it is:

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Options +ExecCGI

Should the section that we copy from the location section to the directory section exclude or include "-Includes"?

Secondly there is another location section under the first location section which is:

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    <Location /otrs/nph-genericinterface.pl>
        PerlOptions -ParseHeaders
    </Location>


Should this location section also be commented out?

[Faqeer1]

I have made the changes as per the original post and can now access OTRS without having to type in /otrs/index.pl however there are additional lines within the otrs.conf that are delivered with OTRS 4 that are not referenced in the original post.????

[arestas]

Does this apply to OTRS5?

Regards,

[SuperDOS]

Any updates on this?

[dlhost]

i tryed it out and it won't work with otrs5.

If i have time next days i look into details... it's a simpel webserver config and i'm sure a simpel rewrite works too

[nthieuutc]

Any updates on this?

Almost in one url I don't know but bellow way may good for your company. I hope helpful.
1. Create DNS record for your OTRS server.
example: ticket.yourdomain.com for agent portal
request.yourdomain.com for Customer portal
wiki.yourdoamin.com for Public portal.

2. Make some copy file /etc/httpd/conf.d/zzz_otrs.conf and rename to:
ortsagent.conf, otrsCustomer.conf, otrswiki.conf.

3. Add Vituralhost configuration in to each copied files
Example for otrsagent.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName ticket.yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot /opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin
<Directory /opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
DirectoryIndex /otrs/index.pl
</Directory>

Do the same with otrsCustomer.conf and otrswiki.conf but change index.pl to customer.pl or public.pl..

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName request.yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot /opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin
<Directory /opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
DirectoryIndex /otrs/customer.pl
</Directory>

and

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName wiki.yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot /opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin
<Directory /opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
DirectoryIndex /otrs/public.pl
</Directory>

Br,