ah, let me see if I follow
when I use a rule like
RewriteRule ^/myapp(.*)$ /apps/WebObjects/MyApp.woa$1 [PT,L]
a url with my myapp in it, would expand and all I'd need is the /wa/entrance or
something like so?
http://my.domain/myapp/wa/entrance
am I following there?
On Jan 29, 2012, at 6:39 PM, George Domurot wrote:
> It looks like these options may be over complicating things. While you can
> get super fancy with rewrites, I've found it's easiest to use Wonder's
> built-in support and one singe rule to get deployed. If you need additional
> rules, you can stack them in above this one, otherwise this configuration
> should take care of you:
>
> 1) in your Resources/Properties file add (to get Wonder to rewrite during
> deployment):
>
> # Apache Deployment Rewrite
> er.extensions.ERXApplication.replaceApplicationPath.pattern=/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyApp.woa
> er.extensions.ERXApplication.replaceApplicationPath.replace=/myapp
>
>
> 2) In your VirtualHost config, include (for Apache to reverse Wonder's
> rewrite from above):
>
> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteRule ^/myapp(.*)$ /cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyApp.woa$1 [PT,L]
> </IfModule>
>
> -G
>
> On Jan 29, 2012, at 1:36 PM, Jesse Tayler wrote:
>
>>
>> A quick test, I wrote a rule like yours
>>
>> RewriteRule ^/(\d*?/?)wa/(.*)$ /apps/WebObjects/WOMan.woa/$1wa/$2 [L,PT,QSA]
>>
>> that I'd expect to redirect a URL like this:
>>
>> http://mydomain.com/wa/entrance
>>
>> to
>>
>> http://mydomain.com/apps/WebObjects/WOMan.woa/wa/entrance
>>
>>
>> aside from using SSL port :443 I don't see much there, I just added a simple
>> virtual host to apache.conf.
>>
>> I'm either misunderstanding the URL that should trigger this rule, or it's
>> not working in a way I'm unsure how to debug -
>>
>> thoughts?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 29, 2012, at 2:35 PM, Fabian Peters wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Am 29.01.2012 um 19:44 schrieb Jesse Tayler:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> oh thanks fabian!
>>>>
>>>> maybe just what I was looking for --
>>>>
>>>> the site is like twitter, so there's standard urls to reach a user
>>>> profile, or a post and those urls should be short, of course.
>>>>
>>>>> They work for me, but I'm by no means a "rewrite expert"...
>>>>
>>>> rewrite expert? ick! who would want to be that!!
>>>>
>>>> I mean, the syntax looks like someone was drunk while slapping their hands
>>>> on the keypad...
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 29, 2012, at 1:10 PM, Fabian Peters wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> # root rewrite
>>>>> RewriteRule ^/$ /cgi-bin/WebObjects/App.woa [L,PT]
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ah, so this basically translates anything into a full woa I guess?
>>>
>>> Yes
>>>
>>>>> RewriteRule ^/(\d*?/?)ajax/(.*)$ /cgi-bin/WebObjects/App.woa/$1ajax/$2
>>>>> [L,PT,QSA]
>>>>> RewriteRule ^/(\d*?/?)upload(.*)$ /cgi-bin/WebObjects/App.woa/$1upload$2
>>>>> [L,PT,QSA]
>>>>
>>>> I guess those two above translate standard ajax and file upload calls in
>>>> the same way?
>>>
>>> Yes. The upload bit is for the AjaxFlexibleFileUpload IIRC.
>>>
>>>>> RewriteRule ^/(\d*?/?)wa/(.*)$ /cgi-bin/WebObjects/App.woa/$1wa/$2
>>>>> [L,PT,QSA]
>>>>> RewriteRule ^/(\d*?/?)wo/(.*)$ /cgi-bin/WebObjects/App.woa/$1wo/$2
>>>>> [L,PT,QSA]
>>>>> RewriteRule ^/(\d*?/?)wr(.*)$ /cgi-bin/WebObjects/App.woa/$1wr$2
>>>>> [L,PT,QSA]
>>>>
>>>> and so, these I guess translate calls from errest, direct actions and
>>>> basic components?
>>>
>>> DAs, component actions and the ERXStaticResourceRequestHandler - which you
>>> won't need in deployment I think. This was copied from my development
>>> apache config.
>>>
>>>> I can test around with these a bit, but I'm not certain I understand what
>>>> they are doing --
>>>
>>>>> RewriteRule ^/(\d*?/?)wa/(.*)$ /cgi-bin/WebObjects/App.woa/$1wa/$2
>>>>> [L,PT,QSA]
>>>
>>> The first group "(\d*?/?)" checks whether there's an instance ID in the URL
>>> and appends that as "$1". You might not need that. The second group "(.*)"
>>> takes the rest and appends it as "$2".
>>>
>>>> all cool, but you must also have some code in your app to return short
>>>> urls during deployment?
>>>>
>>>> I used to have a menu item that used deployment urls for things like
>>>> signup, but used component urls locally during development, but I am
>>>> guessing with WOnder I might have a different approach there?
>>>
>>> Yes, you can set
>>> er.extensions.ERXApplication.replaceApplicationPath.pattern and
>>> er.extensions.ERXApplication.replaceApplicationPath.replace in your
>>> properties and use
>>>
>>> public String _rewriteURL(String url) {
>>> url = super._rewriteURL(url);
>>> ...
>>> return url;
>>> }
>>>
>>> in your ERXApplication subclass if you need more special things.
>>>
>>> Fabian
>>
>>
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