[Xapian-discuss] Pretty URLs for omega?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Aylett [mailto:james-xapian at tartarus.org] 
> Sent: 09 April 2011 16:17
> To: <xapian at catcons.co.uk>
> Cc: xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org
> Subject: Re: [Xapian-discuss] Pretty URLs for omega?
> 
> On 9 Apr 2011, at 07:55, <xapian at catcons.co.uk> 
> <xapian at catcons.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > How can the default omega URL be prettified?
> 
> 
> For apache I'd recommend using something like modwrite so 
> that the external URL used by user agents is different to the 
> scheme that the omega CGI uses. Alternatively you could 
> probably use the Alias directive in some way to do something 
> a little more simple (just /search acting instead of /cgi-bin/omega).
> 
> If you aren't using apache, there will be similar approaches 
> for your webserver. None of this requires changes to omega.
> 
> Best,
> James
> 
> -- 
>  James Aylett
>  talktorex.co.uk - xapian.org - devfort.com - spacelog.org

Thanks James  :-)

Almost there.

Your suggestions focussed my Apache research.  Using a Redirect directive
with Apache 2.2.16, the user friendly http://<host_ID>/search now takes the
user to http://<host_ID>/cgi-bin/omega?DB=<database_ID>.  In case the
details are useful to anyone here's the actual Apache configuration file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    CustomLog "/var/log/apache2/xapian.access.log" combined
    DocumentRoot "/srv/docoll"
    <Directory "/srv/docoll">
        AllowOverride None
        Options All
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
    <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/omega/omega/">
        AllowOverride None
        Options None
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
    Redirect "/search" "/cgi-bin/omega?DB=docoll"
    ScriptAlias "/cgi-bin/" "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/omega/"
    ServerAdmin <e-mail address hidden>
    ServerName "Document Collation"
</VirtualHost>

That's perfect for the live system.  For the development system we need to
use a port-based virtual host.  It has to be port-based because there is no
local name resolution so the virtual hosts must be IP-based.  The
development system works fine when accessed as
http://192.168.168.51/cgi-bin/omega?DB=docoll_dev&:8080 but I haven't been
able to set up a Redirect for http://<host_ID>/search_dev.  

Using 'Redirect "/search_dev" "/cgi-bin/omega?DB=docoll_dev&:8080"' and
opening http://192.168.168.51/search_dev:8080 results in "The requested URL
/search_dev:8080 was not found on this server".  Dropping the "&:8080" from
the Redirect is similar.

Best

Charles