Re: [Exist-development] Added the option of checking server name for URL rewriting

[Joe W. <jo...@gm...>]

Loren,

Very neat.  One observation:  In a couple of cases your @pattern was
".*".  I believe these should all be "/*", not ".*".

Joe


On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Loren Cahlander
<lor...@gm...> wrote:
> There is an option (off of trunk version 11177) now to send web queries to
> different collections within eXist based on the server name in the URL:
> i.e.
> With the following configuration changes in controller-config.xml
> from:
>     <root pattern=".*" path="/"/>
> to:
>     <root server-name="site1.example.com" pattern="/*"
> path="xmldb:exist:///db/org/site1/"/>
>     <root server-name="site2.example.com" pattern="/*"
> path="xmldb:exist:///db/org/site2/"/>
>     <root server-name="site3.example.com" pattern="/*"
> path="xmldb:exist:///db/org/site3/"/>
>     <root server-name="localhost" pattern=".*" path="/"/>
>     <root server-name="site4.example.com" pattern=".*" path="/"/>
> http://site1.example.com/ would be redirected to /db/org/site1
> http://site2.example.com/ would be redirected to /db/org/site2
> http://site3.example.com/ would be redirected to /db/org/site3
> http://localhost/ would be directed to index.xml in the webapp directory as
> it is normally done.
> http://site4.example.com/ would be directed to index.xml
> NOTE: The server-name attribute is optional.  If it is omitted, then the
> behavior operates as normal.
> This will allow for the hosting of multiple websites in one eXist instance.
>
> I still need to work on the jetty configuration, so that the logs for each
> individual website can be separated out from the other websites.