Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki] Clean URLs - Anyone knows why we have /bin/ in XWiki URLs?

This is very valuable information, il should be posted on the xwiki.org :-)

> If you deploy XWiki as the ROOT app, you must also change in > WEB-INF/web.xml the <display-name> parameter to the empty string, > like: > > <display-name></display-name> > > To get rid of /view/, in xwiki.cfg write > > xwiki.showviewaction=0 > > To get rid of /bin/, for the moment you have to change web.xml in a > container-dependent way, so that you map the container's default > servlet > to existing directories, like skins, yui, tinymce and wikieditor, > copy > the /bin mapping to also be activated for / (copy, don't change, so > that > /bin works, too), then add in xwiki.cfg > > xwiki.defaultactionpath= > > This will allow you to access documents with server.com/Space/ > Document, > server.com/Space/ (pointing to Space.WebHome), server.com/Document > (pointing to Main.Document), and server.com/ will show Main.WebHome > without needing a redirect. > > As a bonus, these changes are backwards compatible, meaning that any > currently working URL will also work with these changes performed, so > you won't have any broken bookmarks. > > All these changes aren't completely tested, so there could be some > things that aren't working, because of code that parses the URL and > counts the number of slashes, or expects an exact URL pattern > containing > /bin/ or stuff like that. But my unconfirmed guess is that it > should all > work fine. > > If you want to have different action mappings, like > server.com/Space/Doc?action=edit, then there's more work, like > writing a > new URLFactory, changing struts-config.xml, and creating another > RequestProcessor. > > Sergiu