2 Aug
2013
2 Aug
'13
1:43 p.m.
On Aug 1, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
[snip]
Yes I made a lot of changes to use the new platform-url module. However this module
doesn't support short URLs indeed so I broke support for short urls… :(
I'll work on fixing it for 5.1.x and 5.2.
I've created http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-9376
BTW here's a solution that might work without changing XWiki's configuration at
all:
* Set up a web server in front of your servlet container (such as Apache)
* Configure URL rewriting in order to rewrite URL of type
http://<server>/<path1>/<path2> to
http://<server>/bin/view/<path1>/<path2> (you'll need to do that
only when there are 2 "/" after <server> so that URL like
http://<server>/bin/view/... or http://<server>/bin/edit/... don't get
rewritten
* You'll also need to exclude from rewriting all URLs like
http://<server>/resources/... and http://<server>/skins/...
It would be nice to have someone write these rules (using apache mod rewrite for ex) so
that we can publish them on http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ShortURLs (maybe
someone has published those in our lists already?).
Note that if you use jetty you don't need an additional web front end, see
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Feature/Rewrite_Handler
Would also be nice to publish this solution!
Yet another solution would be http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/ (you'd incur the cost of
going through a Filter for serving static resources unless you configure your web.xml to
prevent that but that cost might be minimal in practice anyway).
We should really document all those possibilities on
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ShortURLs
Another question: if you had the following URL scheme available, would you use it?
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/AlternateURLScheme
Thanks
-Vincent
PS: I'll still work on fixing the issue in the code since it's a regression from
before.
2) Empty
servlet path support
The second thing I am struggling with is shortening the urls. I am following
this guide:
> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ShortURLs
But no matter what I try, I cannot make it work without the '/bin/ prefix.
Please note that the xwiki is running under Jetty as the main context
(mapped as '/') so the url I have is:
server.com/WebHome which according to the short urls document should work.
it appears that the issue comes from StandardXWikiURLFactory:
--------------------
String type = extendedURL.getSegments().get(0);
if (type.equals("bin") ||
type.equals(this.configuration.getWikiPathPrefix())) {
xwikiURL = this.entityURLFactory.createURL(extendedURL,
parameters);
} else {
throw new UnsupportedURLException(String.format("URL type [%s]
are not yet supported!", type));
}
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What version of XWiki are you using? I think some changes have been
made to the URL "parsing" code in 5.1. Vincent, WDYT? Thanks
-Vincent
Sorry about that.
-Vincent
> Thanks,
> Marius
>
>> So basically for server.com/WebHome, what is happening is that type above
>> equals to "WebHome" and so the condition obviously fails and throws
the
>> UnsupportedURLException.
>> Given the above code, I am either forgetting something in the xwiki.cfg or
>> it simply cannot work out of the box...
>>
>> If i were to provide my own custom XWikiUrlFactory, would it solve entirely
>> the issue or some other parts of the system will nevertheless fails because
>> they have the same assumption regarding the presence of the bin or the
>> PathPrefix in the url ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help !
>>
>> --
>> Chris