Re: apache RewriteEngine
Re: apache RewriteEngine
- Subject: Re: apache RewriteEngine
- From: George Domurot <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:31:03 -0800
Correct. And, if you use your default action as your entrance, then this will provide a nice URL starting point:
http://domain/myapp
-G
On Jan 29, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Jesse Tayler wrote:
> ah, let me see if I follow
>
> when I use a rule like
>
> RewriteRule ^/myapp(.*)$ /apps/WebObjects/MyApp.woa$1 [PT,L]
>
> a url with my myapp in it, would expand and all I'd need is the /wa/entrance or something like so?
>
> http://my.domain/myapp/wa/entrance
>
> am I following there?
>
>
>
> On Jan 29, 2012, at 6:39 PM, George Domurot wrote:
>
>> It looks like these options may be over complicating things. While you can get super fancy with rewrites, I've found it's easiest to use Wonder's built-in support and one singe rule to get deployed. If you need additional rules, you can stack them in above this one, otherwise this configuration should take care of you:
>>
>> 1) in your Resources/Properties file add (to get Wonder to rewrite during deployment):
>>
>> # Apache Deployment Rewrite
>> er.extensions.ERXApplication.replaceApplicationPath.pattern=/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyApp.woa
>> er.extensions.ERXApplication.replaceApplicationPath.replace=/myapp
>>
>>
>> 2) In your VirtualHost config, include (for Apache to reverse Wonder's rewrite from above):
>>
>> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
>> RewriteEngine On
>> RewriteRule ^/myapp(.*)$ /cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyApp.woa$1 [PT,L]
>> </IfModule>
>>
>> -G
>>
>> On Jan 29, 2012, at 1:36 PM, Jesse Tayler wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> A quick test, I wrote a rule like yours
>>>
>>> RewriteRule ^/(\d*?/?)wa/(.*)$ /apps/WebObjects/WOMan.woa/$1wa/$2 [L,PT,QSA]
>>>
>>> that I'd expect to redirect a URL like this:
>>>
>>> http://mydomain.com/wa/entrance
>>>
>>> to
>>>
>>> http://mydomain.com/apps/WebObjects/WOMan.woa/wa/entrance
>>>
>>>
>>> aside from using SSL port :443 I don't see much there, I just added a simple virtual host to apache.conf.
>>>
>>> I'm either misunderstanding the URL that should trigger this rule, or it's not working in a way I'm unsure how to debug -
>>>
>>> thoughts?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 29, 2012, at 2:35 PM, Fabian Peters wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 29.01.2012 um 19:44 schrieb Jesse Tayler:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> oh thanks fabian!
>>>>>
>>>>> maybe just what I was looking for --
>>>>>
>>>>> the site is like twitter, so there's standard urls to reach a user profile, or a post and those urls should be short, of course.
>>>>>
>>>>>> They work for me, but I'm by no means a "rewrite expert"...
>>>>>
>>>>> rewrite expert? ick! who would want to be that!!
>>>>>
>>>>> I mean, the syntax looks like someone was drunk while slapping their hands on the keypad...
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 29, 2012, at 1:10 PM, Fabian Peters wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> # root rewrite
>>>>>> RewriteRule ^/$ /cgi-bin/WebObjects/App.woa [L,PT]
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ah, so this basically translates anything into a full woa I guess?
>>>>
>>>> Yes
>>>>
>>>>>> RewriteRule ^/(\d*?/?)ajax/(.*)$ /cgi-bin/WebObjects/App.woa/$1ajax/$2 [L,PT,QSA]
>>>>>> RewriteRule ^/(\d*?/?)upload(.*)$ /cgi-bin/WebObjects/App.woa/$1upload$2 [L,PT,QSA]
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess those two above translate standard ajax and file upload calls in the same way?
>>>>
>>>> Yes. The upload bit is for the AjaxFlexibleFileUpload IIRC.
>>>>
>>>>>> RewriteRule ^/(\d*?/?)wa/(.*)$ /cgi-bin/WebObjects/App.woa/$1wa/$2 [L,PT,QSA]
>>>>>> RewriteRule ^/(\d*?/?)wo/(.*)$ /cgi-bin/WebObjects/App.woa/$1wo/$2 [L,PT,QSA]
>>>>>> RewriteRule ^/(\d*?/?)wr(.*)$ /cgi-bin/WebObjects/App.woa/$1wr$2 [L,PT,QSA]
>>>>>
>>>>> and so, these I guess translate calls from errest, direct actions and basic components?
>>>>
>>>> DAs, component actions and the ERXStaticResourceRequestHandler - which you won't need in deployment I think. This was copied from my development apache config.
>>>>
>>>>> I can test around with these a bit, but I'm not certain I understand what they are doing --
>>>>
>>>>>> RewriteRule ^/(\d*?/?)wa/(.*)$ /cgi-bin/WebObjects/App.woa/$1wa/$2 [L,PT,QSA]
>>>>
>>>> The first group "(\d*?/?)" checks whether there's an instance ID in the URL and appends that as "$1". You might not need that. The second group "(.*)" takes the rest and appends it as "$2".
>>>>
>>>>> all cool, but you must also have some code in your app to return short urls during deployment?
>>>>>
>>>>> I used to have a menu item that used deployment urls for things like signup, but used component urls locally during development, but I am guessing with WOnder I might have a different approach there?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, you can set er.extensions.ERXApplication.replaceApplicationPath.pattern and er.extensions.ERXApplication.replaceApplicationPath.replace in your properties and use
>>>>
>>>> public String _rewriteURL(String url) {
>>>> url = super._rewriteURL(url);
>>>> ...
>>>> return url;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> in your ERXApplication subclass if you need more special things.
>>>>
>>>> Fabian
>>>
>>>
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