[opencms-dev] URL handling

[Achim Westermann]

Hi Christian,

personally I don't like this. What happens is that your editors (and 
developers new to the team) will end up searching the file / jsp in VFS 
they are seeing in the browser if they want/have to change something. I 
would not fiddle around with this.
However you are free to do it. I'd think of a mod_rewrite in apache.

kind regards,

Achim


Christian Steinert wrote:
> Dear all
> 
> one of the things that I am unhappy with in opencms is that there is no 
> abstraction between URLs and file system resources.
> 
> Has anybody in a project implemented some mapping between logical and 
> physical URLs? If so, which technique did you use? Servlet filters?
> 
> Did anybody successfully implement in a custom 404-handler in opencms? 
> Maybe even in a way that works with static export? I am not looking for 
> code here, I only try to figure out, how I could create a custom mapping 
> of URLs against cms resources, without touching the CMS core and without 
> messing around with external things like mod_rewrite.
> 
> One thing that would already be a huge improvement is, if resources 
> could be addressed like folders, as it is possible in Apache. For 
> example, if I have a JSP resource called /foo/bar  and if a request is 
> issued for /foo/bar/baz,then it would be incredibly helpful, if actually 
> /foo/bar were called. This would very easily allow to create mappers for 
> custom url spaces. Does anybody else think this is a good idea? At least 
> the request handling and the link management of opencms would be 
> affected by this, I think. Also, I don't know how expensive this would 
> become, since a naive traversal of the filesystem, whenever a resource 
> is not found might cause too much DB activity.
> 
> Nonetheless, I wanted to ask, what others think of this.
> 
> Kind regards
> Christian
> 
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