Wikis in IBM Connections 5.5 have a little bug, because the link (/library instead of /wikis/form/api/library) for images are wrong and so they are not displayed.

There is a technote, which should solve this issue, but the used way with ProxyPass is not what i want to use. When you use ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse you should add a ProxyRequest off to be more secure. ProxyPass to localhost can be a problem too, i would suggest to change localhost to the Connections IHS Hostname.

Why do I use a different approach?

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Most of my deployments already use a RewriteRule to redirect the hostname to there Connections Homepage, so i don’t need an additional module (which needs ressources and can have security considerations), when i can solve the image issue through mod_rewrite.

RewriteRule "^/library/(.*)" "/wikis/form/api/library/$1" [R,L]

If you haven’t set <forceConfidentialCommunications enabled="true"/> in LotusConnections-config.xml you need to set the RewriteRule and the ProxyPass config within your http and your https configuration parts!

Example httpd.conf:

#

...
# HTTP configuration
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName connections.example.com

    RewriteEngine On

     # Redirect hostname to Homepage
    RewriteRule ^\/$ https://connections.example.com/homepage [noescape,L,R]

    # Fix wrong wiki image URL
    RewriteRule "^/library/(.*)" "/wikis/form/api/library/$1" [R,L]
</VirtualHost>
# HTTPS configuration
<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName connections.example.com

    RewriteEngine On

    # Redirect hostname to Homepage
    RewriteRule ^\/$ https://connections.example.com/homepage [noescape,L,R]

    # Fix wrong wiki image URL
    RewriteRule "^/library/(.*)" "/wikis/form/api/library/$1" [R,L]

    SSLEnable
    SSLProtocolDisable SSLv2 SSLv3
</VirtualHost>
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