On Wednesday 13 February 2002 04:15 am, you wrote: > This document describes what can be done for modifying urls. > Based on your email, it won't be enough for you, but it should > make it clear that the part of the turbine urls that your > client wants to hide is constrained by the servlet spec. > <http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/turbine-2/howto/url-rewriting-howto.html>
I recently discovered that you can use a path prefix mapping in your web.xml that will allow your URLs to be shorter then those mentioned in the URL Rewriting Howto. Intead of: http://www.foo.com/po/s/la/template/Foo.vm You can easily achieve: http://www.foo.com/po/la/template/Foo.vm using the following servlet mapping in your web.xml: <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>Turbine</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/la/*</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> If you make your webapp use the empty context path "" (in Tomcat you can do this by placing your webapp in ./webapps/ROOT, the URL is shortened even further to: http://www.foo.com/la/template/Foo.vm Other options to consider for making pretty URLs work with Turbine include: 1. Using a jsp:forward like Luke Holden mentioned in another post. 2. Using mod_rewrite like Eric Dobbs mentioned. 3. Hacking the Turbine servlet (Turbine.java) to make it work with a servlet extension mapping of *.vm. You could check out the *.jsp and *.shtml servlets that come with Tomcat for ideas on how to implement this. The main caveat is that PATH_INFO will always be null in this scenario. 4. You could write your own servlet to replace the default servlet for the webapp, using the default servlet mapping, /. PATH_INFO will also be null in this scenario. Your custom servlet could map pretty URLs to the ugly Turbine URLs by using a RequestDispatcher.forward(). Check out the servlet invoker that comes with Tomcat for ideas on how to implement this. In all 4 cases, you will need to write your own $link tool to generate the appropriate URLs, whereas if you use the abovementioned path prefix mapping, you can use the $link tool that comes with Turbine as is. I hope this clears things up for everyone. I am ultra busy at the moment, but when I get some free time, I will convert this email into an xdoc and submit it. Regards, -- Rodney -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
