[opencms-dev] url mapping question

[Graeme Kidd]

Looks like you need a ResourceInit handler which allows you to "read a different resource than the one shown in the URI".

Never used it before but I found more information here:
http://www.opencms-days.org/en/program/sessions/t8.html
and here:
http://mail.opencms.org/pipermail/opencms-dev/2009q4/033144.html

Graeme

Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 08:45:26 -0500
From: timd at thedoleco.com
To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
Subject: [opencms-dev] url mapping question

List,

I have had a chance recently to work on another web content management system that is commercial, proprietary but very similar to opencms in its featureset/capabilities. I miss one feature of that system in opencms and i wanted to pick your brains to see how that feature is implemented (if at all) with opencms. So, in this other cms, there is a capability to do custom URL mapping such as mapping http://www.somesite.com/articles/cars/ferrari/enzo.html to a folder that could be named anything (such as //content/syndicated/sports/ferrari/enzo.html. This gave my client the ability manage structure of the content folders in the vfs independent of the URL of that content. This is important because clean URLs matter to SEO and matter to the end-users who like to pass them around. However, that clean URL could mean nightmares when allowing different editors to work on content or to be able to organize content by sources and so on in the VFS. In OpenCms (on the other hand), AFAIK, this URL mapping is wired into how you create content in the VFS. So, for the enzo url above, you will NEED to create that enzo.html content in a folder called //articles/cars/ferrari. That - to my client - could seem like the system forcing him to work in a certain way and may or may not be acceptable.


So, has anyone run into this? It will be great to hear ideas on how to get this done in OpenCms. It is highly possible that this is already available in OpenCms and I just dont know - in that case: I would love to be corrected by the list.


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