On Mar 29, 2011, at 6:58 AM, CVstash dot com wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot Jonathan for the reply. I did just that but it still
> doesn't work out the shortcut even with this code:
> *************
> default_application='resume'
>
> routes_in = (
> ('/view', '/resume/default/index'),
> )
> *************
>
> doing http://localhost:8000/ would redirect to the resume app just
> fine, but doing http://localhost:8000/view gives an invalid request
> error.
Is there any clue in the error message as to the URL that it's using?
>
> Thanks,
> Arbie
>
> On Mar 29, 9:41 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On Mar 29, 2011, at 5:10 AM, CVstash dot com wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> so I made web2py/routes.py with this code:
>>> *************
>>> routers = dict(
>>> BASE = dict(default_application='resume'),
>>> )
>>> routes_in = (
>>> ('/view/', '/resume/default/cv/'),
>>> (r'/view/<any>', r'/resume/default/cv/(?P<any>.*)'),
>>> )
>>> *************
>>> The first part which maps the default controller works fine, but the
>>> second one which should do the shortening of the url doesn't work at
>>> all (says invalid request). I copied the first routes_in entry
>>> directly from the book. Any thoughts?
>>
>> You can't mix the two routing styles. Start by removing the routers=
>> section, and just specifying your default application:
>>
>> default_application='resume'
