Answered here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/33830342/440323
Anthony On Friday, November 20, 2015 at 1:52:05 AM UTC-5, Sam Heather wrote: > > Thanks for the reply Kiran - I have gone through that section of the book > a couple of times and can't find an answer to what I want. > > I should clarify: 'myc' is a generic token - a URL argument - I should > have written it as <token> or <arg>. > > The full path of the application is /default/company/myc, where 'default' > is the package, company is the function, and 'myc' is a URL argument. Is it > possible to do this with routes.py without adding a new entry to the > routes,py file for every instance of the redirect (an ever changing list, > thousands of entries, requiring lots of reloading of the routes.py!). > > Does what I am trying to do make a bit more sense now? > > Thanks! > > Sam > > On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 9:24:29 AM UTC+1, Kiran Subbaraman wrote: >> >> There is an example in the book related to redirection: >> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/04/the-core?search=routes#Pattern-based-system >> A less elegant way would be to: Using routes.py, map the /myc to the path >> /app/controller/func. In the func(), redirect('url path to company/myc'). >> This is, if you want to manage all of this in your app code. >> nginx may have something for your case ... am not conversant enough in >> that though. >> >> ________________________________________ >> Kiran Subbaramanhttp://subbaraman.wordpress.com/about/ >> >> On Tue, 17-11-2015 4:20 AM, Sam Heather wrote: >> >> Hi there, >> >> I am trying to create redirects using web2py from effectively the default >> index page (or just the route of the domain/package). Some keywords (such >> as 'about', stored in a list) wouldn't redirect. However, all not in that >> list would redirect. >> >> The desired behaviour is: >> https://startbean.com/about -> No redirect >> https://startbean.com/myc -> https://startbean.com/company/myc >> >> The default page that is shown at startbean.com is from the package >> 'default' and is called 'index'. If the redirect was as in the below, it >> would be easy: >> >> https://startbean.com/default/about -> No redirect >> https://startbean.com/default/index/myc -> >> https://startbean.com/default/company/myc >> >> because the myc is a URL argument. But when it is from the root, Web2Py >> tries to open a package called 'myc' and then finds no page (index or >> controller function) so errors. >> >> What is the best way of handling this? I was trying with routes.py, but >> couldn't figure out a way to do this (am pretty sure it is not supported). >> I thought about a redirect for the token after / to a page called >> /default/redirect/<token> which would then decide about the redirect, but >> there's no way to stop the infinite loop. Another possible solution was a >> tweak to the nginx config so redirect when there is one token after the /, >> but again I think this causes a problem with the about. >> >> Maybe there is a catch-all function for controllers that I haven't found? >> I've gone through the web2py book and found nothing - any ideas very >> welcome! >> >> Thanks, >> >> Sam >> -- >> Resources: >> - http://web2py.com >> - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) >> - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) >> - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "web2py-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
