I'm currently running a Django app under Cherokee quite successfully.
Now I'm trying to integrate django-staticgenerator
(http://superjared.com/projects/static-generator/) into the site to
generate static files from select pages. Staticgenerator docs give an
example of how to properly configure Nginx rewrite rules as follows:
location / {
if (-f $request_filename/index.html) {
rewrite (.*) $1/index.html break;
}
if (!-f $request_filename) {
proxy_pass http://django;
break;
}
}
All Django URLs end with a "/" so the rewrite rules above look for the
existence of "(.*)/index.html" file. If found, the URL is rewritten
to direct the client to the static index.html file. If the file does
not exist, the request is passed onto Django. So here is what I've
tried in Cherokee to emulate these Nginx rules.
My default rule sends requests to Django through FastCGI. So to mimic
the behavior of the rewrite rules above, I figure I need to:
1. create a Regular Expression rule looking for "^/(.*)/$" and
redirect "^/(.*)/$" to "/$1/index.html" (Final is turned off)
2. create a File Exists rule for any and only files, using a Static
content handler (Final is turned on)
3. create a Regular Expression rule looking for "^/(.*)/index.html$"
and redirect "^/(.*)/index.html$" to "/$1/" (Final is turned off) so
the original request can be send to Django in the default rule
The above is not working for me since the resulting URL looks
something like this,
"http://domain.com/blog/index.html/index.html/index.html/index.html/index.html/index.html/index.html/";
before the connection finally terminates due to too many redirects.
Please excuse me as I'm not very experienced with regular expressions
nor with Cherokee. If the File exists rule would take regular
expressions instead of or in addition to a list of files like the
Nginx rules above, I may be able to do this all in one rule.
I've been at this all morning trying to get this working so any help
you can offer, I would greatly appreciate it.
Sincerely,
Adam
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