Changing default URL scheme

[Linczak, Jonathan W.]

Title: Changing default URL scheme

Hi all,

I searched and searched and couldn't find a reference to this in the mailing list (I know someone asked about this earlier), so I'm asking again.  Sorry!  :(

I'm launching a new site on the 12th, and I'd like to do something different with this one.  Basically, I'd like to change the URL scheme from something like this:

    /lenya/pubname/authoring/something/exciting.html

to:

    /lenya/pubname/authoring/something/exciting/

There's a lot of legitimate reasons why I want to do this, so I won't go into that here.  From what I remember from that question I couldn't find, someone suggested to look at adding something into the publication sitemap to make this happen.  Looking at the sitemap, I have to admit that I'm a bit confused.

For one, here's the first pipeline in the default pub:

    <map:pipeline>
      <map:match pattern="**/">
        <map:redirect-to uri="index.html"/>
      </map:match>
    </map:pipeline>

Now, if I recall correctly, the first pipeline that is matched does it's thing and it's done; no more checking for matches will take place in the sitemap.  So, in this case, it would see I have a slash at the end of my URL, like http://localhost:8080/lenya/pubname/authoring/, then it would redirect to http://localhost:8080/lenya/pubname/authoring/index.html, in which case the matching of pipelines happens again, with it matching against index.html.  But, doesn't ** match everything and anything, including multiple directories?  So, wouldn't the above pipeline also match the following?:

    http://localhost:8080/lenya/pubname/authoring/something/

A quick test says that it does, but the document doesn't exist, so I just get a Document Not Found error instead.  Why would this be added in this way when this only works for the main page?  (Forgive me, I'm thinking through the process as I write this - maybe someone can benefit from this.)  So, using the example URL above, the actual document would be:

    http://localhost:8080/lenya/pubname/authoring/something.html

With this in mind, would I have to just use the previous folder name?  But I don't want to redirect, I actually want the URL to stay the way I want it.  But that almost sounds like a rewrite in the Apache config rather than changing the pub's sitemap?  For example, would this work?  (I'm not in a place to test this right now - I'd much rather keep this on a high level for now to nail how this all works.)

    <!-- match just the homepage -->
    <map:pipeline>
      <map:match pattern="/">
        <map:redirect-to uri="index.html"/>
      </map:match>
    </map:pipeline>

    <!-- match anything and everything -->
    <map:pipeline>
      <map:match pattern="**/*/">
        <map:redirect-to uri="{1}/{2}.html"/>
      </map:match>
    </map:pipeline>

Again, seems strange since it's a redirection rather than being the actual URL, but it seems like I would have to change how Lenya reads pages in order for the change to be perminent.  What am I missing?

Jon