Site Geo Map does not show on Alfresco 4.2.c #1
Description
After dropping the jar file into the shared/lib directory on Tomcat, add the Site Geo Map to any of your sites and neither the map nor the toolbar show up.
To Resolve this issue :
The problem is likely in the geo jar file itself. But rather than un-assemble the jar, find the issue, fix, re-assemble the jar you can do the following.
The problem is that when the Share page with the Site Geo View is constructed there is a <script>...</script> element defined for the Google Maps API as follows....
<script src="/share/res/http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false" type="text/javascript">
The mapping for these URL's in the share web.xml file does not handle this type of URL and ends up not resolving to the target URL http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false
To fix this I added 2 entries to the urlrewrite.xml file in the Share WEB-INF/urlrewrite.xml file as follows
<rule>
<condition type="scheme" operator="equal">http</condition>
<from>^/res/http:(.*)</from>
<to type="permanent-redirect">http:$1</to>'
</rule>
<rule>
<condition type="scheme" operator="equal">https</condition>
<from>^/res/http:(.*)</from>
<to type="permanent-redirect">https:$1</to>
</rule>
These entries MUST be placed BEFORE the existing ^/res/(.*) entry so that they get resolved first.
The reason I added the 2 entries is because I use both http and https
If you only add a pattern for http without the https scheme you will get an error stating the content returned is not text
Anyway, the real fix should be made to the <script>..</script> entry generation in the Geo JAR file but with these simple changes, it now works on my system and I hope this helps somebody else out as well.
This may also be a good idea to add these entries in the standard Alfresco urlrewrite.xml deployment anyway.
Steve