Geert, Again, thanks, makes sense, and now I can have a fallback that is working.
Austin On Oct 15, 2007, at 5:40 AM, Geert Bevin wrote: > > Hi again Austin, > > the purpose of fallbackid is to execute an element when no URL > matches in the scope of the site. Of course, if you put this on the > root site, everything that's not an element will cause the fallback > element to be execute. Without a fallbackid, RIFE's servlet filter > basically defers the execution to the next filter in the chain, which > is usually you're servlet container's default filter ... that serves > files like stylesheets, scripts, images, ... > > Now, there's a way around this by using the > com.uwyn.rife.engine.elements.Defer element (rife/defer.xml if you > prefer). If you declare elements in your site for all the paths that > have content, you create elements that will not be caught by > fallbackid, but still defer the execution to the servlet container. > > For instance: > > <element id="DeferImages" file="rife/defer.xml" url="/images/*"/> > > or > > <element id="DeferImages" > implementation="com.uwyn.rife.engine.elements.Defer" url="/images/*"/> > > HTH, > > Geert > > On 14 Oct 2007, at 16:23, Austin Coose wrote: > >> >> And another question, >> >> How exactly do I used the "fallbackid"? >> >> I tried to use the <site fallbackid=".."> ... >> >> But all stylesheets and scripts associated with my application >> disappeared, but when I looked at the source in the browser, it >> displayed the correct (or at least the same) webapp root url. I did >> not even try to tackle this too much, as nothing stood out as a >> problem, and when I took it away everything was fine again. I did >> not google search or search the groups, I apologize if I am asking a >> repeat question. >> >> Thanks again for any help, >> >> Austin >> >>> > > -- > Geert Bevin > Terracotta - http://www.terracotta.org > Uwyn "Use what you need" - http://uwyn.com > RIFE Java application framework - http://rifers.org > Music and words - http://gbevin.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "rife-users" 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/rife-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
