friendly urls

[Dan Vega <da...@gmail.com>]

I am having a problem running a application on tomcat and its due to the ses
urls. I am pretty new to tomcat so I am sure you guys (&girls) already know
this.  I have a url that looks like this and from what I understand tomcat
does not support this and I was presented with 2 options.

http://dev.danvega.org/blog/index.cfm/2009/2/5/CFMU-Updates-coming-soon


1.) move to resin
2.) use a friendly url servlet.

* I would really like to go with option 2 but as I said I am new to this, so
anyone who could confirm this and point me in the right direction would be
awesome!


Thank You
Dan Vega
danvega@gmail.com
http://www.danvega.org

Re: friendly urls

[Dan Vega <da...@gmail.com>]

Thank you all for the help. I indeed found urlRewrite last night and it has
turned out to be exactly what I was looking for. Thanks again for everything
guys!

Dan

Re: friendly urls

[Ken Bowen <kb...@als.com>]

In this regard,   http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/    is a very useful  
tool.

-Ken

On Mar 2, 2009, at 6:55 AM, Tim Funk wrote:

> * is mapped to the default servlet. And this is done system wide in  
> conf/web.xml. You can turn that behavior off and require each webpp  
> to map *. But then youi also need to make sure you have a way to  
> serve static content like images. (Which is what the default servlet  
> does)
>
>
> A better way is to use a Filter. The filter can look at the URL  -  
> determine if it is SEO friendly URL, and then perform a  
> RequestDispatcher.forward() to the "real servlet".
>
>
> -Tim
>
> Dan Vega wrote:
>> Thanks for the help Chuck. I am actually running railo under tomcat  
>> fine
>> right now and as you said its just a specific app thats not working  
>> because
>> it uses a convention for urls. From what I understand Tomcat only  
>> allows one
>> * per mapping and thats why these urls are not working and that  
>> resin allows
>> for this. Is this not correct?
>
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Re: friendly urls

[Tim Funk <fu...@joedog.org>]

* is mapped to the default servlet. And this is done system wide in 
conf/web.xml. You can turn that behavior off and require each webpp to 
map *. But then youi also need to make sure you have a way to serve 
static content like images. (Which is what the default servlet does)


A better way is to use a Filter. The filter can look at the URL  - 
determine if it is SEO friendly URL, and then perform a 
RequestDispatcher.forward() to the "real servlet".


-Tim

Dan Vega wrote:
> Thanks for the help Chuck. I am actually running railo under tomcat fine
> right now and as you said its just a specific app thats not working because
> it uses a convention for urls. From what I understand Tomcat only allows one
> * per mapping and thats why these urls are not working and that resin allows
> for this. Is this not correct?
> 


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Re: friendly urls

[Dan Vega <da...@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the help Chuck. I am actually running railo under tomcat fine
right now and as you said its just a specific app thats not working because
it uses a convention for urls. From what I understand Tomcat only allows one
* per mapping and thats why these urls are not working and that resin allows
for this. Is this not correct?

RE: friendly urls

["Caldarale, Charles R" <Ch...@unisys.com>]

> From: Dan Vega [mailto:danvega@gmail.com]
> Subject: friendly urls
>
> I have a url that looks like this and from what I
> understand tomcat does not support this

Your understanding is incorrect; Tomcat doesn't care what URLs you give it - but your webapp might.

> http://dev.danvega.org/blog/index.cfm/2009/2/5/CFMU-Updates-coming-soon

> 1.) move to resin

Won't help.

> 2.) use a friendly url servlet.

Tomcat is a servlet container; it's the servlets of your webapps that process the URL.  Tomcat only matches whatever portion of the URL you've configured for each webapp, and then passes the request on to the appropriate webapp.  From that point on, it's up to the webapp to decipher and handle the request.

In your case, it looks like you want to use ColdFusion under Tomcat; if so, a little Googling would have found numerous descriptions of how to do it, including this one from Adobe itself:
http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/j2ee/phase2-tomcat-deploy.html

Or if you want to use Railo instead:
http://railo.ch/en/index.cfm?treeID=351

 - Chuck


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Re: friendly urls

[Serge Fonville <se...@gmail.com>]

> * I would really like to go with option 2 but as I said I am new to this,
> so
> anyone who could confirm this and point me in the right direction would be
> awesome!
>

When I googled tomcat friendly urls, the first link was
http://www.coderanch.com/t/85405/Tomcat/Setting-Friendly-URLs-applications-Tomcat

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Serge Fonville