I should add that one reason I'm having trouble debugging is because I'm
not sure how to test the output of the rewrite. Is there any way to see
exactly what the rule is going to output, given a particular filename?
On Friday, November 17, 2017 at 10:12:58 AM UTC-5, Ian W. Scott wrote:
>
> Hi there. I'm dynamically adding version numbers to the filenames for
> static assets like css, js, and image files. (These version numbers aren't
> actually in the filenames. They're just added to the url in the <link> and
> <script> tags that reference them.) So I need to use url rewriting to
> remove those version numbers. In other words, if the browser looks for
>
> /static/css/theme.1510773357.css
>
> it should be served
>
> /static/css/theme.css
>
> I've written a routes.py file that I thought would do the trick, but it's
> not working. The browser is still giving a 404 error for the file.
>
> routes_in = ((r
> '.*/static/(?P<subdir>(css|images|audio|js))/(?P<basename>.*)\.[\d]{10}\.(?P<extension>(css|js|ico|png|svg|jpe?g))'
> ,
> r'/static/\g<subdir>/\g<basename>\.\g<extension>'),
> )
> routes_out = [(x, y) for (y, x) in routes_in]
>
> Any idea what's wrong? I've confirmed that the first regex in the pair
> does match the filename, and that the correct matching groups are found
> ({'subdir': 'css', 'basename': 'theme', 'extension': 'css'}). Is there
> something wrong with the second string that creates the new path?
>
> In case anyone is wondering, I'm doing this even though I know about
> web2py's built-in versioning system. The app is under constant incremental
> development and I don't want to have to manually change version numbers
> every time I push out an update. This approach automatically forces users
> to download the updated file based on its last-modified datetime.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ian
>
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