Yes the assumption is correct, besides the fact I have converted an old site to new which means I will need to maintain the old urls for a time being and redirect (301 redirect) to the new I also need some redirecting for SEO purposes and the bot engine urls coming in.
-----Original Message----- From: Carsten Schinzer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 6:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Apache Mod Rewrite Rules Len, I still do not see your reply to the "why rewrite" question? Is the assumption made above correct? Can you let us know what the background is? We're at risk to be off into assumptions while not looking at what the requirement really is. All the above is correct, however a solution for rewriting is then probably putting an Apache (or other httpd) in front of OFBiz. OFBiz as such is agnostic of the URL is serves (that is my understanding). As such, it may be enough to manage multiple DNS entries for your domains to your public IP and then make sure the default app (assumed, ecommerce) is mounted to webroot. Regards Carsten 2009/12/7 Jeroen van der Wal <[email protected]> > John, > > That's a really good excuse to do url-rewriting. In that case you might > want > to take a look at nginx (http://wiki.nginx.org/Main) as a high performance > http server. Or Apache... > > -Jeroen > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:27 PM, John D. Hays <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Jeroen, > > > > I can tell you for long established e-Commerce sites old URLs are very > > important. They are contained in correspondence, blogs, other websites, > > etc. and you don't want your customer or prospective customer to get lost > on > > the way to the "new" page they are looking for. > > > > > > On Dec 7, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Jeroen van der Wal wrote: > > > > Hi Len, > >> > >> It sill puzzles me why you think you need a url rewriting. Do you want a > >> loadbalancer, reverse proxy or image caching? Provide us your scenario, > >> you > >> don't want all the hassle that comes with url rewrite for just exposing > >> Ofbiz to the world. > >> > >> -Jeroen > >> > > > > John > > > -- Best Carsten Schinzer Waisenhausstr. 53a 80637 München Germany
