Thanks for the reply Kiran - I have gone through that section of the book a couple of times and can't find an answer to what I want.
I should clarify: 'myc' is a generic token - a URL argument - I should have written it as <token> or <arg>. The full path of the application is /default/company/myc, where 'default' is the package, company is the function, and 'myc' is a URL argument. Is it possible to do this with routes.py without adding a new entry to the routes,py file for every instance of the redirect (an ever changing list, thousands of entries, requiring lots of reloading of the routes.py!). Does what I am trying to do make a bit more sense now? Thanks! Sam On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 9:24:29 AM UTC+1, Kiran Subbaraman wrote: > > There is an example in the book related to redirection: > http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/04/the-core?search=routes#Pattern-based-system > A less elegant way would be to: Using routes.py, map the /myc to the path > /app/controller/func. In the func(), redirect('url path to company/myc'). > This is, if you want to manage all of this in your app code. > nginx may have something for your case ... am not conversant enough in > that though. > > ________________________________________ > Kiran Subbaramanhttp://subbaraman.wordpress.com/about/ > > On Tue, 17-11-2015 4:20 AM, Sam Heather wrote: > > Hi there, > > I am trying to create redirects using web2py from effectively the default > index page (or just the route of the domain/package). Some keywords (such > as 'about', stored in a list) wouldn't redirect. However, all not in that > list would redirect. > > The desired behaviour is: > https://startbean.com/about -> No redirect > https://startbean.com/myc -> https://startbean.com/company/myc > > The default page that is shown at startbean.com is from the package > 'default' and is called 'index'. If the redirect was as in the below, it > would be easy: > > https://startbean.com/default/about -> No redirect > https://startbean.com/default/index/myc -> > https://startbean.com/default/company/myc > > because the myc is a URL argument. But when it is from the root, Web2Py > tries to open a package called 'myc' and then finds no page (index or > controller function) so errors. > > What is the best way of handling this? I was trying with routes.py, but > couldn't figure out a way to do this (am pretty sure it is not supported). > I thought about a redirect for the token after / to a page called > /default/redirect/<token> which would then decide about the redirect, but > there's no way to stop the infinite loop. Another possible solution was a > tweak to the nginx config so redirect when there is one token after the /, > but again I think this causes a problem with the about. > > Maybe there is a catch-all function for controllers that I haven't found? > I've gone through the web2py book and found nothing - any ideas very > welcome! > > Thanks, > > Sam > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to web2py+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
