yaws

And one more lost reply ...


                                                                                
On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 06:48:46PM +0100, Carsten Schultz wrote:                
> Hi!                                                                           
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> I want to set up a server which is completely dynamic, i.e. there will        
> be no static pages.  Even if some of the pages are conceptually               
> static, I do not want to treat them that way, because I want to add           
> header material, e.g. a menu.                                                 
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> Now, if this was just a part of a virtual server, I could use an              
> appmod.  However afaik I cannot have an appmod called "".  So what            
> would you do?  I could do some nasty rewriting, but I would like to           
> avoid that.  What I would like is to get the request passed to my code        
> as soon as the path is normalized.                                            
                                                                                
                                                                                
We had some discussion a while ago about having an appmod named, ""             
or maybe "/". I seem to recall I had some really good argument against          
at the time but I can't recall it now.                                          
                                                                                
I would be fairly easy to allow that though. Why would you want this ?          
... Nahhh, never mind ... I can see reasons to have it.                         
                                                                                
                                                                                
/klacke

Hi klacke!

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:22:49PM +0100, Claes Wikstrom wrote:
> We had some discussion a while ago about having an appmod named, ""
> or maybe "/". I seem to recall I had some really good argument
> against at the time but I can't recall it now.
>
> I would be fairly easy to allow that though. Why would you want
> this?  ... Nahhh, never mind ... I can see reasons to have it.

Actually, I found out that I may not want to have this ;-)  I had not
thought about having a non-virtual directory for images.

I now have all (virtual) html pages under /content.yaws/some/path/
(yes, although I do not like to have the yaws extension there, I like
to have the file recompiled automatically after changing it.) and
images under /images/.  I do not like that particularly, but it's ok.
I might get rid of the content.yaws by using rewriting.  Still I would
like to have more options at the rewriting stage, like returning a 404
directly.  I may be using yssi to include yaws files under /raw/ anf
would not want the user to be allowed to access these directly.  All
of this can be done, but some things somehow seem hacky.  Maybe anyone
has a better way of structuring a server like this?

Greetings,

Carsten

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