Just an idea - modify the test server to serve under localhost:3000/myapp.
-- Zbyszek On 11/16/06, Cédric Bouvier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a ѕimple yet thorny problem, which I expect most of you also have or had. It has several possible solutions, but I'm chiefly interested in knowing how *you* would solve it and why. We're developing a Catalyst application. It serves HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images. HTML is the output of TT2, but CSS, images and JavaScript are static. We have them served by C::P::Static::Simple on the built-in server, and we use a <Location> the have them directly served by Apache/mod_perl, one the production server. Under mod_perl, the application's root is not the server's root, i.e., it is http://server/myapp, whereas it is http://localhost:3000 on the built-in test server. This would not be a problem if the CSS were not linking to images. And because CSS pages are static, they cannot make use of uri_for(), and therefore get the links to the pictures wrong. Several solutions come to mind, and I cannot choose which one I like best (or I dislike the least): - have CSS served through TT2. I'm wondering about the extra load it would put on the Catalyst engine. Maybe it's completely negligeable, maybe not... Is it worth the effort to cache them? If so, what are the recommended best practices? - make all links in CSS relative. This makes it harder to spread the stylesheets in a deep directory structure, unless one is willing to tediously count the ../../.. (or was it ../..?) and count them again when a stylesheet moves. - insist that MyApp be installed at the server's root, bribing the sysadmin if need be (or threatening, or loudly shouting at, or blackmailing, or sacking, torturing...) - use some black magic involving mod_rewrite or even HTTP::Proxy to modify the broken links on the fly... Hmmm, blackmailing the sysadmin should be easier than having him tweak mod_rewrite... - Pre-process the CSS at install time, with some sort of ttree, and then serve them as static content. Any war stories worth telling, Gentlemen, Ladies? -- C é d r i c B o u v i e r -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFXNyPV+dbgD38PGgRAm5zAJ9/pza47+h+EsqnOI5jyp69wBkgZQCdGIEF GlllH30KkWhmcg6G/zLfFnQ= =YG65 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
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