Great tip!. This is very usefull! and you make it in trunk :D
On 17 oct, 23:03, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> Replace your web2py/routes.py with this:
>
> ------------- begin routes.py-----------
> try: config=open('routes.conf','r').read()
> except: config=''
> def auto_in(apps):
> routes=[
> ('/robots.txt','/welcome/static/robots.txt'),
> ('/favicon.ico','/welcome/static/favicon.ico'),
> ('/admin$a','/admin$a'),
> ]
> for a,b in [x.strip().split() for x in apps.split('\n') \
> if x.strip() and not x.strip().startswith('#')]:
> if not b.startswith('/'): b='/'+b
> if b.endswith('/'): b=b[:-1]
> app = b.split('/')[1]
> routes+=[
> ('.*:https?://(.*\.)?%s:$method /' % a,'%s' % b),
> ('.*:https?://(.*\.)?%s:$method /static/$a' % a,'%s/static/
> $a' % app),
> ('.*:https?://(.*\.)?%s:$method /appadmin/$a' % a,'%s/
> appadmin/$a' % app),
> ('.*:https?://(.*\.)?%s:$method /$a' % a,'%s/$a' % b),
> ]
> return routes
>
> def auto_out(apps):
> routes=[]
> for a,b in [x.strip().split() for x in apps.split('\n') \
> if x.strip() and not x.strip().startswith('#')]:
> if not b.startswith('/'): b='/'+b
> if b.endswith('/'): b=b[:-1]
> app = b.split('/')[1]
> routes+=[
> ('%s/static/$a' % app,'static/$a'),
> ('%s/appadmin/$a' % app, '/appadmin/$a'),
> ('%s/$a' % b, '/$a'),
> ]
> return routes
>
> routes_in=auto_in(config)
> routes_out=auto_out(config)
> ------------------- END ---------------
>
> what does it do? It writes routes for you based on a simpler routing
> configuration file called routes.conf. here is an example:
>
> ----- BEGIN routes.conf-------
> 127.0.0.1 /examples/default
> domain1.com /app1/default
> domain2.com /app2/default
> domain3.com /app3/default
> ----- END ----------
>
> It maps a domain (the left had side) into an app and it shortens the
> URLs for the app, by removing the listed path prefix. That means
>
> http://domain1.com/indexwill be mapped into
> /app1/default/indexhttp://domain2.com/indexwill be mapped into
> /app2/default/index
>
> It is safe in that it preserves admin, appadmin, static files,
> favicon.ico and robots.txt.
>
> http://domain1.com/favicon.icohttp://domain1.com/robots.txthttp://domain1.com/admin/...
> /admin/...http://domain1.com/appadmin/...
> /app1/appadmin/...http://domain1.com/static/... /app1/static/...
>
> and vice-versa.
>
> It does assume one app per domain.
>
> I think something like this should be default since lots of people
> find routes.py hard to work with.
> Comments? Suggestions?
>
> Massimo
