Re: [Zope] catching shorter URLs
Ken Ara wrote: Aaron, The Path Handler product (http://www.zope.org/Members/NIP/PathHandler) is your friend. Well, it would have been, but it's not necessary nowadays... Normally, you would create a path handler called 'games' and point it to your display_game method. To obtain the result you describe, you could move your display_game code into index_html and test for a path_to_handle, else display your 'real' index_html. Nowadays, you can just use a normal python script instead of a path handler and process the traverse_subpath... cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] catching shorter URLs
Dieter Maurer wrote:
> A "SiteAccess" "AccessRule" can do such things for you.
>
> Look around whether you find some documentation about "AccessRule"s
> and how to tweak the request object in such a rule.
Thanks Dieter! That indeed did the trick. It took a lot of digging
around online (and several times undoing the last edit because it made
the folder I was working in uneditable with the management interface)
but in the end I was successful.
For posterity:
A Virtual Host Monster mapping sends any request with the "games"
subdomain to a special folder with the following access rule:
#
request = context.REQUEST
#determine title (last part of URL)
url = request.other['ACTUAL_URL']
if len(url) > 0:
if url[-1] == '/':
url = url[:-1]
splitpath = url.split('/')
target = splitpath.pop()
#add title as form data to request object
request.form['gametitle'] = target
#rewrite path - display_game is a Python script in the root of
#Zope, so by adding its name to the namestack it will be found.
#Not added if I'm editing the script (hack) so I'm not locked out.
namestack = request.other['TraversalRequestNameStack']
if namestack[0][:6] != 'ZPytho' and namestack[0][:6] != 'manage':
request.other['TraversalRequestNameStack'] = ['display_game']
#
So far it works well. I can visit
games.mydomain.com/Tetris
and
www.mydomain.com/display_game?gametitle=Tetris
interchangably.
Aaron
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re: [Zope] catching shorter URLs
Aaron, The Path Handler product (http://www.zope.org/Members/NIP/PathHandler) is your friend. Normally, you would create a path handler called 'games' and point it to your display_game method. To obtain the result you describe, you could move your display_game code into index_html and test for a path_to_handle, else display your 'real' index_html. Have fun. Ken --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aaron Maupin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to make pretty URLs for a game site I'm developing, and due > to the hosting environment I'm somewhat limited in my Apache URL > rewrites. (I've tried the normal mod_proxy / mod_rewrite rules and they > haven't worked in this environment.) > > I'd like the visitors to see > > http://games.mydomain.com/game-title > > Whereas what's really being accessed is > > http://www.mydomain.com/display_game?title=game-title > > or any solution that allows me to query a relational database for a game > title so I don't have to create hundreds of objects in Zope. > > The only idea I have now is to use a Virtual Host Monster mapping to > send visitors using the games.mydomain.com to a folder that contains a > custom standard_error_message that reads the request object, figures out > the game title, and queries the database but that's really inelegant. > > Is there a way to inspect the request before Zope starts traversing objects? > > Or any other ideas on how to accomplish what I want? I'm not new to > Zope, but I basically use it as a container for Python scripts and > haven't delved too deeply into it otherwise... so I may be missing > something obvious. > > Aaron Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] catching shorter URLs
Aaron Maupin wrote at 2007-7-8 11:12 +0900: >I'm trying to make pretty URLs for a game site I'm developing, and due >to the hosting environment I'm somewhat limited in my Apache URL >rewrites. (I've tried the normal mod_proxy / mod_rewrite rules and they >haven't worked in this environment.) > >I'd like the visitors to see > > http://games.mydomain.com/game-title > >Whereas what's really being accessed is > > http://www.mydomain.com/display_game?title=game-title > >or any solution that allows me to query a relational database for a game >title so I don't have to create hundreds of objects in Zope. A "SiteAccess" "AccessRule" can do such things for you. Look around whether you find some documentation about "AccessRule"s and how to tweak the request object in such a rule. If you are unsuccessfull, come back again. I, personally, will only be able to respond on Thursday or Friday, however. -- Dieter ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
