[opencms-dev] URL handling

[Christian Steinert]

] Code Create [ Bernd Wolfsegger wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> Regarding 404 and 500 errors (and if you like some more) have a look here:
>
> http://www.code-create.de/somefilethatdowesnotexist.html
>
> All you need is already there in OpenCms.
> Have a look at the /workplace/handler folder.
> There you have to customize the handle404.html and handle500.html to your needs.
> You can than e.g. use an included structured content and a related jsp (as usual
> with structured content) to display fully configurable error pages.
> For the 500er you have to change the corresponding entry in the web.xml so that
> it looks like the one for the 404.
>
> Hope that helps.
>   
Yes - that helps :-)
thanks a lot.

Christian
> Kind regards, Bernd
>
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] Im
> Auftrag von Christian Steinert
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 18. Oktober 2009 12:03
> An: The OpenCms mailing list
> Betreff: [opencms-dev] URL handling
>
> 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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