[opencms-dev] How can we static export without links being changed?

[John Weible]

I have a question about the simplest way to disable the link rewriting 
that happens by default when pages are static exported.  (We're running 
version 7.0.1 about to upgrade to 7.0.3.)

Our OpenCms system is one of several back-end servers we run behind an 
Apache 2.2 reverse proxy server using mod_proxy.  We configured our 
Apache proxy to serve most CMS-hosted content from the 
.../export/sites/default/... directories, so that users don't hit the 
dynamic versions of the pages at all, and our users only see the nice 
short clean URLs we want them to see.

The annoying problem is that when pages are static exported, the 
internal links in them get rewritten with a prefix of 
"/export/sites/default/".  I understand why this is normally a necessary 
thing.  But clearly in an environment where OpenCms is being reverse 
proxied, this is not a benefit.  So how do we modify the export process 
to leave those links alone when writing the files?

I took a quick look at the source code and didn't see an easy fix, but 
there are so many nested classes and method calls being used I may just 
not see the easy fix.  I also didn't notice any directive to change this 
behavior in the opencms-importexport.xml file.

Thanks!

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John Weible
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign