[opencms-dev] url mapping question

[Roman Uhlig Maxity.de]

That's actually pretty cool and clearly supersedes our "solution"
suggested a few minutes ago. We just didn't know it... :(
 
Roman 


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Von: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org
[mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] Im Auftrag von Graeme Kidd
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. April 2010 16:43
An: opencms-dev at opencms.org
Betreff: Re: [opencms-dev] url mapping question


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


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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.

--
Tim


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