SID-00913: Map requested URLs (to ease interface with MS Project etc)

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.1.2	Perl version:	5.8.8-12ubuntu0.4
Category:	CategoryDeployment	Server OS:	Ubuntu 8.04	Last update:	15 years ago

We have sets of pages of the form http://twikipath/bin/view/Main/ProductNameDocumentName

We use MS Project to track products, and it allows a base URL to be set- for example: http://twikipath/bin/view/Main/ProductName/

and each task can then be given as a relative link "DocumentName".

Clicking on the resulting hyperlink opens http://twikipath/bin/view/Main/ProductName/DocumentName (with a '/' between ProductName and DocumentName)

It does not appear to be possible to remove the '/', and TWiki quite rightly complains that there is no ProductName web.

Is there a way to map these URLs so that a request for http://twikipath/bin/view/Main/ProductName/DocumentName actually gets: http://twikipath/bin/view/Main/ProductNameDocumentName

I've seen some use of apache mapping previously to shorten TWiki URLs etc, but not sure if this is possible?

-- NigelOrr - 2010-07-26

Discussion and Answer

After a quick look at mod_rewrite, found a solution with RedirectMatch- e.g. add the following to /etc/apache2/conf.d/twiki.conf

# shortcut to single file called DocumentRootNameProjectName 
# http://wiki-server/DocumentType/ProjectName/TopLevel 
# points to 
# http://wiki-server/cgi-bin-twiki/view/Main/DocumentRootNameProjectName 
RedirectMatch /DocumentType/(([A-Z].*)?)/TopLevel?$ http://wiki-server/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/DocumentRootName$1 
# shortcut to set of files with common root name 
# http://wiki-server/DocumentType/ProjectName/DocumentName= 
# points to 
# http://wiki-server/cgi-bin-twiki/view/Main/DocumentRootNameProjectNameDocumentName 
RedirectMatch /DocumentType/(([A-Z].*)?)/(([A-Z].*)?)?$ http://wiki-server/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/DocumentRootName$1$3

Hope that is useful to others

-- NigelOrr - 2010-07-27

I am glad you fond a solution, and thanks for sharing! Yes, Apache redirects have many uses.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-07-27

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