[Xapian-discuss] Pretty URLs for omega?

[James Aylett]

On 11 Apr 2011, at 10:21, <xapian at catcons.co.uk> <xapian at catcons.co.uk> wrote:

> Almost there.

This is now almost entirely not a Xapian issue, so I suggest if you continue to need help you turn to apache-related lists.

> 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
[snip]

That's helpful — it would be good if you could drop this into a brief write-up on our wiki, so others can find it easily in future.

> 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.

You can use /etc/hosts for this (or similar under Windows).

> 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.  

That's not how port specifications work in URLs. You mean:

> http://192.168.168.51:8080/cgi-bin/omega?DB=docoll_dev

However you can't do this with a redirect from an apache running port 80. Instead, look into the proxy and proxy_http modules, which will do what you need.

James

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