On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Doug Orleans <dougorle...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wanted to know how the Racket web server figures out whether a URL refers > to a servlet or not. In particular, I was curious about how the > "servlet-root" path in the configuration table was used (its default is > "."). The closest thing I could find to documentation was this bullet point > in the docs for "web-server@": > Execute servlets in the mapping URLs to the given servlet root directory > under htdocs. > I've read this sentence many times and I still can't parse it... Is there a > word or two missing or something?
Ya, I'll fix it > Anyway, after digging through the source code (particularly > web-server-unit.rkt), here's my understanding: If > [host-root]/[file-root]/[servlet-root]/[url-path] refers to an existing file > whose extension is ".ss", ".scm", ".rkt", or ".rktd", then the file is > loaded and served as a servlet. (It's actually a bit more complicated, > since it handles extra path elements after the servlet name.) For example, > if host-root is ".", file-root is "htdocs", servlet-root is "servlets", and > url-path is "foo.rkt", then if "./htdocs/servlets/foo.rkt" exists, it is > served as a servlet, otherwise if "./htdocs/foo.rkt" exists, it is served as > a file. > Is this right? Can this be documented more clearly somewhere? (Or is it > already?) > Anyway, is there a way to customize this (e.g. to be able to map directory > URLs to servlets) without having to recreate the entire chain of dispatchers > from web-server@ by hand? You shouldn't use web-server@. You should use serve/servlet where stuff like this is totally trivial. Jay > --Doug > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
