If you look back through the archives I was asking a similiar thing (matching the root) ages ago and we actually ended up adding a isRecursive flag to the rewriting mech - this allows you to tell lift to stop rewriting at the first match and subsequently not get stuck in an impossible loop.
Cheers, Tim On Jun 6, 8:25 pm, Joe Wass <j...@folktunefinder.com> wrote: > Tim -- > > Thanks, yes that was very useful; it's certainly helped me understand > working with parameters in urls. For the moment I'm working round the > requirement to match at the root of the url but eventually it would be > nice to be able to do it. David, any guidance on this would be much > appreciated! > > Cheers > > Joe > > On Jun 6, 12:28 am, Timothy Perrett <timo...@getintheloop.eu> wrote: > > > > > Joe, > > > You might enjoy my article on URL rewriting:http://is.gd/wq4K > > > Does that help? > > > Cheers, Tim > > > On Jun 5, 6:37 pm, Joe Wass <j...@folktunefinder.com> wrote: > > > > I'm after re-writing, not a re-direct (although I'd compromise to a > > > redirect if re-writing isn't possible). > > > > In Rails I seem to recall it wasn't re-writing but binding after all > > > other attempts to bind had failed. For comparison, here's the Rails > > > version: > > > > [rails routes.rb] > > > # normal mappings etc > > > map.connect '/search', :controller => 'view', :action => 'search' > > > > ... > > > > # fallback find member after everything else has failed > > > map.connect "/:tag", :controller => "view", :action => "member" > > > [/rails] > > > > which would bind the portion after the slash to 'tag' > > > > Sorry to drag another framework into it, but I think it's the best way > > > to explain. > > > > Joe > > > > On Jun 5, 3:13 pm, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Joe, > > > > Do you want a redirect (HTTP 304) or do you want the URL rewritten so > > > > that > > > > Lift sees site.com/user/member, but the browser still thinks in sent > > > > site.com/member ? > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > David > > > > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Joe Wass <j...@folktunefinder.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > I want to be able to handle requests that don't fall within the > > > > > sitemap. I have a site with members, and, providing that a user id > > > > > doesn't conflict with any part of a sitemap path, I want site.com/ > > > > > member to redirect to site.com/user/member. I've done this kind with > > > > > Rails, but the Lift model doesn't quite seem to match Rails so I'm a > > > > > little unsure about how to go about doing it... suggestions? > > > > > > TIA! > > > > > > Joe > > > > > -- > > > > Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net > > > > Beginning Scalahttp://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > > > > Follow me:http://twitter.com/dpp > > > > Git some:http://github.com/dpp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
