#50 content/file regeneration

[Markus Elfring]

Does your server support an automatic content regeneration
mechanism like the apache web
(http://httpd.apache.org/docs-
2.1/mod/mod_rewrite.html)?
Is there a rule or condition
available to make it possible to react on the event "missing or
invalid file" by a script?

[Markus Elfring]

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How do you think about this topic?

[Stephen]

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Register a 'redirect'.

ns_section "ns/server/${servicename}/redirects"
ns_param 404 /404-handler.tcl

This will run whenever the originaly requested page was not
found. You can determine the original request via [ns_conn
request], and regenerate your content or do whatever else
you need...

[Markus Elfring]

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I do not want to process all requests for missing files by this
handler.
Can a pattern be specified for this rewrite rule?

[Stephen]

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No.

However with little extra effort you could match against the
request manualy. If it's something you're interested in,
regenerate the content, otherwise ns_returnnotfound.

[Markus Elfring]

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Would more users like that support for such patterns will be
added for rewrite rules?