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49 49  Anyone who has used WebObjects has likely noticed that WebObjects URLs are long ##[[http://yoursite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/AppName.woa/wa/something]]##. It is a common request to make these URLs nicer for end-users who are used to just requesting ##[[http://yoursite.com]]##. Fortunately Apache provides an amazingly extensive module called "mod//rewrite" that allows you to rewrite the URL requests of your site based on a series of regular expressions and rules.//
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51 -Aaron Rosenzweig has a very thorough article about [[using mod//rewrite with Apache//>>http://www.jewelryluv.com/fashion/pageWithName/ModRewrite]].
51 +Aaron Rosenzweig has a very thorough article about [[using mod//rewrite with Apache//>>http://www.jewelryluv.com/fashion/pageWithName/ModRewrite/]].
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53 -=== mod//rewite with mod//webobjects ===
53 +=== mod//rewrite with mod//webobjects ===
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55 55  I ran into a problem with mod//rewrite when using mod//WebObjects where mod//WebObjects had be loaded first or it just wouldn't work properly (it would work fine with cgi-bin adaptor).//
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93 93  The WOA produces URLs in the format ##[[http://site.com/page/HomePage?appNum=2]]##, which turns into ##[[http://site.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/AppName.woa/2/viewPage?pageName=HomePage]]##.
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95 +{{id value="Apache22Adapter"}}{{/id}}
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95 95  == WebObjects Adaptor for Apache 2.2 ==
96 96  
97 97  === Travis Cripps ===
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99 -A number of people have expressed interest in using the WebObjects adaptor with Apache 2.2.x. I finally gotten a chance to sit down and work on it today. I'm writing to let you know that it's available in the Project Wonder CVS repository.
101 +A number of people have expressed interest in using the WebObjects adaptor with Apache 2.2.x. I finally gotten a chance to sit down and work on it today. I'm writing to let you know that it's available in the Project Wonder CVS repository. (also there are [[precompiled binaries>>http://webobjects.mdimension.com/wonder/mod_WebObjects/]] for various OS available)
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101 101  The necessary changes turned out to be mostly minor updates to change calls to outdated/deprecated functions. The biggest (and non-trivial) change was for SSL support. It's been re-written to use Apache's mod//ssl module.//
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122 122  And, of course, either change the name of the WebObjectsAlias setting from /cgi-bin/WebObjects to <foo>/WebObjects or comment out the ScriptAlias definition for the /cgi-bin/ directory.
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126 +{{info title="Note"}}
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128 +The default {{ScriptAlias}} directive in the 10.5 and 10.6 {{httpd.conf}} files is:\\
129 +{code}
130 + ScriptAliasMatch ^/cgi-bin/((?!(?i:webobjects)).*$) "/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/$1"
131 +{code}
132 +This prevents {{/cgi-bin/WebObjects}} from matching, so no change to {{WebObjectsAlias}} or {{ScriptAlias}} is necessary.
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134 +{{/info}}
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124 124  Other than these tips, it's pretty much the standard compilation and installation, and configuration.
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126 126  1. Alter the make.config file in the Adaptors directory of the Wonder repository to reflect your apache installation setup.