[opencms-dev] New/better solution for generating nice URLs?

[Tobias Herrmann]

Dear Roman Uhlig,

using mod_jk and mod_rewrite on Apache it shouldn't be a problem to 
achieve the URL you stated under 4. You will probably need at least one 
additional rewrite rule for each 'other' web-application running in your 
servlet container. These rewrite rules would direct specific URLs to 
these applications and all other requests to your OpenCms instance.

Best regards,

Tobias

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Roman Uhlig schrieb:
> I'd just like to ask if there is any new approach/solution planned/available
> for generating SOE-friendly URL's for OpenCms web applications. I know there
> are some solutions (Sebastian Himberger etc.), but I'm talking of a more
> production-like multi-server setup, where web proxy/server and application
> container are not running on the same machine.
>
> That's the situation right now:
>
> 1. OpenCms standard installation
>
> www.domain.com/opencms/opencms/site/category1/subcategory2
>
> -> absolutely horrible, not only for SOE
>
> 2. with site container ("/sites/site")
>
> www.domain.com/opencms/opencms/category1/subcategory2
>
> -> not much better
>
> 3. OpenCms as ROOT webapp
>
> www.domain.com/opencms/category1/subcategory2
>
> -> we are getting somewhere
>
> 4. OpenCms behind a web proxy/server
>
> www.domain.com/category1/subcategory2
>
> -> thats what we want
>
>
> The problem is, that 3 and 4 are hard to do or impossible in a multi-server
> environment, where several webapps may reside in one servlet container. E.g.
> requests to one of our application servers (Tomcat 6) are tunneled through
> Apache mod_jk on another server, while the application server is running a
> Wicket webapp and several other things.
>
> So thats why I'd like to throw the question in, if there are known solution
> together with OpenCms or if there is something planned for upcoming 7.5 or
> later releases? Also I'd be interested if other people have this problem in
> times where SOE optimization gets crucial.
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Roman
>