Hi again,
just to experiment with the idea, I wrote this quick & dirty patch.
Its in the "it works for me but I'm not putting this into production
without more tests"-state.
---- 8< ------
diff --git a/elib/html-mason/lib/HTML/Mason/Request.pm
b/elib/html-mason/lib/HTML/Mason/Request.pm
index 003e154..4479423 100644
--- a/elib/html-mason/lib/HTML/Mason/Request.pm
+++ b/elib/html-mason/lib/HTML/Mason/Request.pm
@@ -249,6 +249,11 @@ sub _initialize {
search: {
$request_comp = $self->interp->load($path);
+ ## FIXME: index.html should be a configuration parameter
+ unless ($request_comp) {
+ $request_comp = $self->interp->load("$path/index.html");
+ }
+
last search unless $self->use_dhandlers;
# If path was not found, check for dhandler.
---- 8< ------
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Pedro Melo <m...@simplicidade.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm revisiting a very old Mason site (still running 1.05, I'm
> upgrading it to the latest Mason) and I stumbled on something about
> serving index.html files and multiple component roots.
>
> This sites uses a "common" and "channel" component setup. Its the same
> basic site, shared with different output channels. Each channel has
> its on component root and it appears first in the list of component
> roots, so that each site can override the common one.
>
> The Apache document root points to the channel document root, and the
> Apache configuration uses a DocumentIndex directive to set the
> index.html file as the one to get on directory URLs.
>
> But if I move all index.html components to the common component root
> (outside the Apache document root), the /dir/ => /dir/index.html
> internal rewrite will not happen, because there is no /dir/ nor
> /dir/index.html in the Apache document root.
>
> The question is: do you have a similar setup that is working? If so how?
>
> I searched the docs and I found about decline_dirs setting that might
> help me but it seems that I would need to create a dhandler for each
> directory where I have an index.html file.
>
> Looking at the code it seems that Mason doesn't deal with this
> situation at all. Maybe moving the Apache "DirectoryIndex" setting to
> Mason would make some sense, given that right now it doesn't seem to
> be able to deal with multiple component roots? If so, would you accept
> a patch for it?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --
> Pedro Melo
> http://www.simplicidade.org/
> xmpp:m...@simplicidade.org
> mailto:m...@simplicidade.org
>
--
Pedro Melo
http://www.simplicidade.org/
xmpp:m...@simplicidade.org
mailto:m...@simplicidade.org
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