Unfortunately, we're not yet using Apache. I'm not sure how mod_rewrite would help in this case; can you elaborate your thoughts a bit?
--- In [email protected], James Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This seems like something that could easily be handled by Apache's > mod_rewrite. Are you running Apache on your front end web server? How > does the redirect from the front end webserver to the app server happen? > If you are not running Apache there is probably some trickery you could > setup with JSP's. I do not think that this is something that could be > done with just Flex though. I think you will need something intelligent > on the server side to make the routing decisions. > > -James > > > On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 21:28 +0000, sbyrne_dorado wrote: > > Matt, > > I'm sorry that I'm not being clear. I'm thinking about your JSP > > suggestion, and I suppose that would, and would confirm my original > > premise that Flex has a limitation in this area. > > > > Let's see if I can be a little clearer: > > > > WEB SERVER: > > incoming url from browser: http://66.23.45.67/beta/Example.mxml > > redirects to > > outgoing to app server: http://192.168.4.110/Example.mxml > > > > APP SERVER: > > can know as a deployment parameter that the external name contains > > "beta". > > incoming url from web server: http://192.168.4.110/Example.mxml > > emits some HTML with EMBEDS in it, BUT THIS HTML DOES NOT CONTAIN > > "beta" in the URLs that it uses to refer to the Flex servlets. > > It needs to in order for the calls from the browser to the Flex > > servlets to be redirected successfully by the Webserver. My > > assertion is that Flex does not have any support for this > > situation, and instead REQUIRES that the Webserver NOT rewrite > > the URLs to remove a "context root" that's used only for > > directing traffic at the Webserver. > > > > --- In [email protected], "Matt Chotin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Could you embed the information by generating the MXML using a JSP? I > > > don't remember if you can access the URL that the browser thinks you are > > > hitting from a JSP if it is really a pass-through from another server. > > > The JSP might think it's on the "real" server (192.168...) and not > > > (foo.bar.com). If not maybe you can do it with Javascript on the HTML > > > page since the url in the address bar should have the right info? > > > > > > > > > > > > Sorry, not much help but I'm still having trouble understanding which > > > pieces of info you have access to, don't have access to, when you would > > > have access to it, and where and when you need that info. > > > > > > > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > > Behalf Of sbyrne_dorado > > > Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 11:41 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Fun with context roots > > > > > > > > > > > > I don't think I even get to the state of calling services; the main > > > page (with EMBED, OBJECT, etc) needs to be emitting the pseudo context > > > root "beta", because URLs from it that it will use to download the > > > application will need that pseudo context root to get past the web > > > server. > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Matt Chotin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What urls are being generated by the server here, named services? If > > > > the urls need to be portable can you use relative urls? I can > > > > understand that you want a url on one server to redirect to a > > > different > > > > url on another server using a different path, but I guess I'm not sure > > > > how the context root becomes a problem here. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On > > > > Behalf Of sbyrne_dorado > > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 5:06 PM > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > Subject: [flexcoders] Fun with context roots > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am wondering if I've stumbled on a limitation of Flex, or if it's a > > > > limitation of my knowledge (probably the latter). > > > > > > > > Here's the situation: I would like to have the ability to have a web > > > > server dispatch to different app servers based on a "contex root" like > > > > path prefix. But, I don't want to have to force each of those app > > > > servers to have to have the webapp stored under the same context root > > > > that the web server URLs are using. > > > > > > > > More concretely: > > > > > > > > On my webserver I want to be able to say > > > > "http://foo.bar.com/beta/...";, and have the webserver redirect that to > > > > the internal app server URL "http://192.168.1.1/...";; i.e. no "beta" > > > > context root. > > > > > > > > Can I do this? I can't seem to get the URLs generated by the server > > > > to be the "externally visible" form of the URLs (i.e. with the "beta" > > > > context root) and not have the app server's context root be "beta". > > > > > > > > Steve > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > > > > > Yahoo! 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