please forgive in saying so, but "I'm not really keen on the whole idea of having the index.cfm stuck in the middle of the URL like that - I think it looks kludgy."
does it really matter? Since when are URL's aesthetically pleasing? look at the crap in the "address bar" of many applications - more often than not it looks like alphabet soup. "Friendly URL's" are a different matter: they are designed to provide a sensible mapping between using the URL as a "name" to "content". A la REST. but Fusebox, esp earlier versions, are far from presenting their URL's in a friendly, easy to remember format. just my 2c On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Seona Bellamy <[email protected]> wrote: > Err... I am using Fusebox. The only plugin I can find means that you end up > with a url along the lines of: > > http://www.myserver.com/index.cfm/action/main.home/variable1/value1 > > I'm not really keen on the whole idea of having the index.cfm stuck in the > middle of the URL like that - I think it looks kludgy. On the other hand, > the plugin I found was a few years old. If you can point me at a more recent > one that fixes this problem, then I'd be thrilled! :) > > And yeah, I do get what you're saying about real rewriting needing to happen > at the webserver level. That's how I've worked with it in the past but was > just playing around with the idea to see fi I could find an alternative. > > Thanks for your input! :) > > Cheers, > > Seona. > > 2009/12/19 Daniel Punton <[email protected]> >> >> I honesty doubt you can find one solution for both IIS and apache. That is >> the crux as the redirection/aliasing (rewrite) has to happen at the >> webserver level. >> If you were only using fusebox you could of course use a plugin. >> Dan >>> >>> Seona Bellamy <[email protected]> Dec 18 02:34PM +1100 ^ >>> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> I'm using my time off work to play around with some old half-finished >>> projects that have been knocking around my hard-drive for a few years, >>> seeing what I can bring to them with the new techniques and perspectives >>> I >>> learned in my last job. One of these projects in a half-built Fusebox 4 >>> app >>> and the issue I've been thinking about today is friendly URLs. >>> >>> In my last job, we used ISAPI Rewrite to handle the URL rewiring for our >>> CMS. It was very effective and relatively easy to customise once you got >>> your head around the syntax, but the main problem I see with it is that >>> it's >>> only feasible when you have control over the server and can make sure >>> that >>> the necessary software is installed and suchlike. (That's my >>> understanding >>> of it, anyway, so please correct me if I'm wrong!) >>> >>> I'm looking to create something that can be taken and uploaded to any CF >>> server, including shared hosting providers, and "just work". That's the >>> theory anyway. So I was thinking about ways that you could write >>> something >>> in CF to handle this. I've done some searching and the only options I can >>> find are rather old (most seemed to date around 2005 as far as I could >>> tell) >>> and so I'm not sure how relevant they would still be. >>> >>> So is this something that anyone has done or knows of being done and can >>> point me to? Is there a way to handle it in Fusebox so that you don't >>> need >>> to keep the index.cfm in the middle of the URL (as all the examples I >>> found >>> seem to do)? Am I just indulging in a pipe dream here and sound give up >>> and >>> play with something else? >>> >>> Any thoughts and/or suggestions would be welcome on this. I'm tired to >>> going >>> around in circles. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "cfaussie" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
