OpenWayback Sample Overlay

This project presents an example mvn overlay which overlays the the standard wayback-webapp and allows for easier customizations. The overlay is added on top of the webapp.

This example contains the following files key config files wayback.xml and CDXServerCollection.xml

These files are 'overlayed' on top of the standard webapp build, allowing for customization.

This project can be further modified to create custom setups for Wayback which change various components.

Latest Configuration

This example presents a 'new'-style Wayback configuration based on the cdx server.

For demo purposes, a single warc and single cdx are included in the samples directory, containing one capture of http://example.com

This configuration also includes:

• Properties, such as port and path, configured in pom.xml which are accessible in the spring config

• Maven plugins for jetty and tomcat

• Embedded CDX Server

Installing

You can run mvn install in the wayback-sample-overlay directory to install.

This will build an installable .war file, ./target/wayback-sample-overlay-VERSION.war which can be deployed to a servlet container, such as Apache Tomcat

Testing Locally

You can also run:

• mvn jetty:run-war to start an instance of Jetty for testing

• mvn tomcat7:run-war to start an instance of Tomcat 7 for testing

Both commands will build and execute the .war file on the command line.

Wayback will startup on port 8080 (setting can be configured in pom.xml) and is configured to read the sample cdx and warc. The cdx contains one entry for http://example.com

If successful, the following paths will be accessible:

• Calendar Page: http://localhost:8080/wayback/*/http://example.com

• Capture Replay: http://localhost:8080/wayback/20140206032125/http://example.com

• CDX Query: http://localhost:8080/cdx?url=example.com

Maven Config Details

The pom.xml contains the following properties written to a wayback.properties and read by the spring config.

    <wayback.port>8080</wayback.port>
    <wayback.cdxPath>/cdx/</wayback.cdxPath>
    <wayback.path>/wayback/</wayback.path>

These configs determine the port and path for this sample collection.

Spring Config Details

This sample is configured using an embedded CDX Server to read the cdx data.

The following are excerpts from CDXServerCollection.xml

The cdx are listed as follows:

  <bean name="cdx" class="org.archive.format.cdx.MultiCDXInputSource">
    <property name="cdxUris">
      <list>
        <value>./sample/cdx/example.cdx</value>
        <!-- include other cdxs here ... -->
      </list>
    </property>
  </bean>

The warc reading is configured as follows, allowing wayback to find the warc in ./sample/warcs/

  <bean id="resourceStore" class="org.archive.wayback.resourcestore.JWATFlexResourceStore">
    <property name="sources">
      <list>
       <bean class="org.archive.wayback.resourcestore.FlexResourceStore$PrefixLookup">
          <property name="prefix" value="./sample/warcs/"/>
        </bean>
      </list>
    </property>
    <property name="blockLoader">
      <bean class="org.archive.format.gzip.zipnum.ZipNumBlockLoader">
      </bean>
    </property>
  </bean>