[opencms-dev] URL handling

[Yves Glodt]

2009/10/18 Christian Steinert <christian_steinert at web.de>

> 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?
>

Not sure if it corrensponds 100% to your request, but I have used URLrewrite
to mess with urls.
(mainly to remove the /opencms prefix, because I wanted to avoid using
Apache httpd in my setup)

Read more about here:
http://opencms-wiki.org/Removing_the_/opencms/opencms_prefix_without_using_Apache


>
> 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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