> > Is it possible to have wildcard URL mappings without specifying the > controller in the url? > Say for instance if I want to have, "myurl.com/random1" and " > myurl.com/r4nd0m2" to be forwarded to a single controller to perform an > action within that controller, how can that be done with web2py, without > permitting that controller to be called directly by > myurl.com/controllername? (basically, instead of > myurl.com/controllername/random1 -> myurl.com/random1) >
Yes, I suggest you look at http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/4#URL-rewrite as well as the /web2py/routes.example.py and /web2py/router.example.py files. The paramater-based rewrite system works well for common simple cases, like removing the app name and default controller name (and a default function name per controller) from all URLs. For more complex cases, the pattern-based rewrite system is quite flexible. The nice thing about the rewrite systems is that they work in reverse as well -- if you use the URL() function to generate URLs, they will automatically be rewritten according to the rewrite rules. Anthony
