On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Steve  Potter wrote:
> I have an existing website currently built with Joomla.  I would like
> to convert it to a custom designed Django site.  The problem I am
> running into is that I will not be able to do it all at once.  To
> start with, I would like to take some of the business logic and form
> process and move to Django, but continue to use Joomla to serve the
> content.  It seems that it should be possible to do something like
> this by creating a custom component for Joomla that acts as a proxy.
>
> I'm just looking for some pointers.
>
> Has anyone else tried something like this?
> Is it possible to send requests to Django without using the URL
> system?

You can use url rewriting to point your users at the old site while you
code up the new one.  Apache's mod_rewrite is pretty well documented.
You would capture incoming URLs that aren't yet in your new Django app
before they get to it, sending them to the legacy app instead.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html
http://howto.kryl.info/mod_rewrite/


-- 
Greg Donald
Cyberfusion Consulting
http://cyberfusionconsulting.com/


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