Hello,
I would like to know how you guys handle the case of
a site with lots of dynamic (WM) pages and lots of
(externally developed) static HTML pages (with crap
such as animated GIFs, flash, etc.). My questions are:
* Do you use the servlet container (Tomcat) to handle
hits to both kinds of pages (i.e. in its standalone
mode), or do you mix it with a "real" web server
(Apache or (gasp!) IIS)? My guess is you use a real
web server AND Tomcat, right?
* Say you use Apache and Tomcat, and the app is a
Tomcat context living under webapps/myApp. I would
like to have the following layout:
$APACHE/htdocs/myApp/
+- html: all static HTML pages for the app
+- images: all the images for the static pages
$TOMCAT/webapps/myApp/
+- templates: all the WM templates for the app
+- images: all the images for the templates
+- css: all CSS style sheets for the app
+- js: all Javascript scripts for the app
You will notice I have images in both sides. This is
because I don't see how I could make Apache serve an
image that is being requested from a template, since
at this point Tomcat is already handling the request.
Is this correct?
Does this layout make sense to you? What would you
do differently? Is this layout at all close to what
you (would) use in a production site?
Will the webserver differentiate between /myApp
as a reference to the static directory and /myApp
as a reference to the servlet root?
How do you handle references to images from a
template, other than hardcoding the app name in
the reference?
<img src="/myApp/servlet/myApp/images/foo.gif">
<img src="/myApp/images/foo.gif">
<img src="/images/foo.gif">
[I'm asking this because at one time or another I
believe I have seen all of these work, and I'm not
sure why they all did...]
* Is it at all possible to have pages of both kinds
jumping to each other? For instance, this kind of
interaction:
1. From template T1, have a _link_ to static page S2.
2. In static page S2, read a couple of fields and
in its submit _button_, jump to template T3.
3. From template T3 read a couple of fields and
in its submit _button_ jump to static page S4.
4. From static page S4, have a _link_ to template T5.
etc. You get the idea. The thing is, I got worried
by this answer from Fedor:
If cookies are disabled and you hardcode the links
(like putting href='abc.wm') you gonna lose the
session. Is it the case? If this is the case the
right way to do is to use $link.... to create links.
Is this correct? If yes, this would seem to imply that
jumping from a template to a static page would loose
the session information, right? I'm saying this because
I believe you cannot use $link to set a link to a static
page; is this correct? If yes, how do you handle the
jumping back and forth?
Thanks,
--
Gonzalo A. Diethelm
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