We needed to dynamically control the URLs we re-write to... So the biggest
change is to hook URLrewriter into our Content Management System (home grown)
so that it gets the rewrite rules from our database instead of a config file.
We essentially have 2 requirements for URLrewriting:
1) requests for a 'pretty URL' (i.e., one that is essentially 'virtual' in our
system) get pointed to the proper dynamic page in our CMS.
2) requests for an 'ugly URL' (i.e., one that is the actual path to the dynamic
page - which includes a page ID or content ID in the URL) get rewritten (with a
301 "permanent" redirect) to a friendly URL if one exists. This is to provide
SEO support for our "pretty URLs"...
So, if a user requests:
https://www.wizard101.com/game/myfriendlyurl
They would get the content that actually goes with:
https://www.wizard101.com/home2/game/001231jasf012312310123
(I made that up, but 'home2' is actually the Tapestry template, and it gets the
dynamic content for a content item designated by "game/001231jasf012312310123"
from our database...)
Or, a request for:
https://www.wizard101.com/home2/game/001231jasf012312310123
Gets a 301 (permanently moved) redirect to:
https://www.wizard101.com/game/myfriendlyurl
(This last bit is because search engines score click-throughs based on the
path, and we may have people out in the web somewhere who have linked to our
old path, but we don't want to lose the SEO ranking for click-throughs to our
new path... So it _must_ be a 301 redirect, or the old path gets the higher
ranking for the click-through instead of our new 'friendly' URL... If we have
multiple scoring URLs that point to the same page, the page will essentially be
downgraded in score because click-thru traffic will be split between the
different paths.)
--
Robin D. Wilson
Director of Web Development
KingsIsle Entertainment, Inc.
CELL: 512-426-3929
DESK: 512-623-5913
www.KingsIsle.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo [mailto:thiag...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:06 AM
To: Tapestry users
Subject: Re: What websites are using Tapestry 5?
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:51:28 -0200, Robin D. Wilson <rwils...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> cluster on tomcat 6.0.20, Sun JDK 1.6. We also use URLrewriter, but we
> modified it heavily to use our CMS database to get the new
> paths.
What exactly have you modified in the URL rewriting support? I'm curious
about it. It can inspire us to improve our framework. :)
--
Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo
Independent Java, Apache Tapestry 5 and Hibernate consultant, developer,
and instructor
Owner, software architect and developer, Ars Machina Tecnologia da
Informação Ltda.
http://www.arsmachina.com.br
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