Re: [Erlyaws-list] yaws_vdir module

[Claes W. <kl...@ta...>]

Julian Noble wrote:

> Symlinks offer a subset of virtual directory capabilities. They are not 
> an equivalent.
> Both IIS and Apache have analogous systems for redirecting requests 
> independently of the filesystem.


Hello again Julian - long time no hear - nice to see you back !!
And yes - you are right - but also

 >  and the demographics of Yaws's current
> userbase.
> 

applies.

I wrote what I wrote since you wrote the vdir code - which made
yaws_server.erl more hard to understand - also cleaned up the
server code substantially and then disappeared ....


> I notice that there is a recent addition to the codebase for 'excluded 
> paths' under an appmod.
> This is exactly the sort of thing virtual directories are intended to 
> solve.
> It seems a pity that a more 'ad hoc' mechanism such as an exception 
> should be employed - but I can only blame myself for not being around to 
> evangelize the concept - and more importantly perhaps - provide some 
> basic documentation :(


But here I really have to disagree, the exclude thing is precisely
what all those framework guys want, they typically want an appmod at /
since all requests are to be handled by the "framework" except maybe
some static content directories containing js/jpg/etc stuff

/klacke