[Zope3-dev] Re: Apache rewrite rules and URLs: an experiment

[Peter Mayne]

Derrick Hudson wrote:
> I have a site with
> a skin that I couldn't manage to publish behind apache (using
> proxypass) because it had trouble combining the virtual host and the
> skin in the URL.  Now I'll have to go back and review everything and
> see if this works forme :-).

The example in the book is skinless, which I suspect won't be the case 
for many sites. I think adding an example that includes a skin, and has 
some explanation about how to write URLs, would be useful.

I still prefer the resulting URLs to be relative, rather than having 
http://host/ at the front, because the browser already knows what the 
host is, so repeating it is just redundant. However, I think that's a 
hangover from the days of making sure that the host wasn't hardcoded in, 
so moving from dev -> test -> prod wouldn't break. Since context/@@ 
seems to be the Zopeish thing to do, I'll just go with that.

I just thought of a reason for using relative links: if I download a set 
of pages to read them at home (the online Plone book, for instance), 
relative links will work on disk, whereas http://host links won't.

Would I be unreasonable if I wanted an equivalent of context/@@ that 
produced relative links? :-)

PJDM
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Peter Mayne
Spherion Technology Solutions
Canberra, ACT, Australia
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