[Webware-discuss] Cleaning up AppWorkDir and better 404 handling...

[Costas M. <co...@ho...>]

Hi all,

Coupla questions:

I have a fairly largish python package for which WebWare acts as its 
frontend.  Thus my package is structured like this:
/package
   /sub-package1
   /sub-package2
   /frontend

I put all the Webware-specific stuff under /frontend, incl. my SitePage, and 
run the createAppWorkDir (?) script for /frontend.  Everything worked out of 
the box and that's cool, but now a browser can hit 
http://mymachine/webware_location/SitePage and get a page (a blank one, but 
still a page).  I know I am being ...er... detail-oriented, but I don't like 
that.  What's the best way to handle this? how do y'all usually setup 
installations?  Should I put the WK classes under another sub-package and 
import them instead?

Secondly, I am kinda disappointed in the way WebKit handles 404s.  A simple 
text message isn't enough I think: I'd like to provide a search page or a 
good guess at what the user was trying to get at.  I could batch-create a 
static 404 page and save it as 404text.txt, but that detail-orientation 
again :-)... Is it possible that Application.py tries to serve a 404Page 
(possibly set in Application.config) before defaulting to 404text.txt?  In 
the same vain, I'd like an error page caused by an exception to go to a Page 
class if possible (I know this may not work if the exception is in SitePage) 
instead of the default traceback page.

I'd be happy to start hacking away and add these features, if someone can 
gimme some starting hints (WK internals mostly go over my head still).

Anyways, thanks in advance --just the fact that after weeks of working on 
WK, I only find cosmetic stuff to nitpick on says something about Webware 
:-)...

C.



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