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Last modified by Aaron Rosenzweig on 2020/09/03 22:17
From version 30.1
edited by Marc Guenther
on 2009/09/29 06:57
Change comment: added url to mod_WebObjects binaries
To version 31.1
edited by pgr
on 2009/11/23 16:55
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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://web.archive.org/web/20071007074308/http://www.jewelryluv.com/fashion/pageWithName/ModRewrite/]].
52 -(Note that the original page is now gone, so this link takes you to the internet archive copy of that page)
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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54 -=== mod//rewite with mod//webobjects ===
53 +=== mod//rewrite with mod//webobjects ===
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56 56  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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125 125  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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127 127  Other than these tips, it's pretty much the standard compilation and installation, and configuration.
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129 129  1. Alter the make.config file in the Adaptors directory of the Wonder repository to reflect your apache installation setup.