Re: [Gmod-gbrowse] Redirecting a gbrowse site to a gbrowse2 site

[Scott C. <sc...@sc...>]

Hi Vipin,

I know exactly enough about mod_rewrite to do the things I need to do
(probably a little less, actually :-) and what you're describing isn't
one of them.  Have you tried turning on logging for mod_rewrite to see
if there is an obvious reason for it's failure?

Scott


On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Vipin TS <vip...@gm...> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Alessandro,
>>
>> One thing you could use is mod_rewrite, an apache extension.  Do you know
>> if you have access to it?  If so, you could show us an example old URL and
>> the corresponding new URL and I could (probably) write a rule that would do
>> the trick.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>
>
> Hi Scott,
>
> For Gbrowse 1.X, I used the RewriteRule on apache configuration to look for
> the default instance of my Gbrowse:
>
> <>
> ServerName gbrowse.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de
> ...
> RewriteRule ^$ /cgi-bin/gbrowse
> ...
> <>
>
> by this just invoking the base URL (gbrowse.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de), it took
> the user to my default GBrowse instance (Not the Genome Browse welcome page)
>
> But the same strategy I followed to Gbrowse 2.X and it fails to invoke the
> default browser instance.
> Till now I did not find a solution to fix the issue. For the Gbrowse 2.X
>
> <>
> ServerName gbrowse2.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de
> ...
> RewriteRule ^$ /gb/gbrowse
> ...
> <>
>
> By using the base URL (gbrowse2.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de) this page will take me
> to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeast
> I believe that the script is getting only the last keyword yeast (that is my
> default browser instance) and redirecting a common search page.
> At some point the redirecting script fails to add the browser address
> (gbrowse2.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de/gb/gbrowse) to the default Gbrowse instance
> name.
> My main GBrowse.conf file head look like the following:
>
> [GENERAL]
> config_base            = /home/gb/gb2/   # overridden by environment
> variable GBROWSE_CONF
> htdocs_base            = /home/gb/gb2/www/
> url_base               = /
> db_base                =
> tmp_base               = /home/gb/nobackup/gb2_tmp_file/
>
> I think when invoking the gbrowse2.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de, the url_base option
> here replaces the combined gbrowse2.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de/gb/gbrowse/ with
> '/' and that result into the normal google search with default browser
> instance keyword name. I am not sure whether I can add any other option to
> make the base url to work at the same way what I did for Gbrowse 1.x
>
> I hope you can give me better solution to resolve this problem.
>
> many thanks in advance, Vipin
>



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