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Is it possible to clean up the urls generated by WO in WO? I don't plan on using Apache, so that sorta eliminates mod_rewrite :-) Shorter URLs aren't a necessity, but it would be nice to have.

Your webserver will have to support some sort of rewriting.

er.extensions.ERXApplication.replaceApplicationPath.pattern=/cgi-bin/WebObjects/YourApp.woa

er.extensions.ERXApplication.replaceApplicationPath.replace=/YourApp

All URL generation in Wonder passes through this filter, so all your URLs will get chopped (if you look at the new AjaxExample I posted, it's using this).

I actually automatically do this in our application base class if direct connect is enabled:

if (replaceApplicationPathPattern == null && rewriteDirectConnectURL() && ERXProperties.booleanForKeyWithDefault("com.mdimension.rewriteDirectConnect", true)) {

replaceApplicationPathPattern = "/cgi-bin/WebObjects/" + name() + ".woa";

if (replaceApplicationPathReplace == null) {

replaceApplicationPathReplace = "";

}

In Apache, you would setup the rewrite rule for this as:

RewriteRule ^/yourapp(.*)$ /cgi-bin/WebObjects/YourApp.woa$1 [PT,L]

But if you're not using Apache, you would need to figure out what the equivalent is.

If you need more complex rewriting in Wonder, you can override _rewriteUrl in ERXApplication and implement your own custom rewriting logic, but again, whatever the app produces will have to match what your app rewrites URLs to.

References:
	>Shorter URLs without mod_rewrite? (From: Rams <email@hidden>)