OK, so that seemed to make sense, and I tried it, but still got 500
errors. Looking at the log, it's apparently being caused by invalid
syntax:

ERROR: root:Your routes.py has a syntax error. Please fix it before
you restart web2py
...Target WSGI script '/.../apachewsgi_2/web2py/wsgihandler.py' cannot
be loaded as Python module.


On Jul 30, 9:30 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Jul 30, 2009, at 1:22 PM, LB22 wrote:
>
>
>
> > Use a named buffer... I'm not sure what you mean. Could you give me an
> > example of how I could rewrite my code in a more prudent way? My way
> > clearly isn't prudent or I wouldn't end with 500 internal server
> > errors ;o)
>
> Rather than this:
>
> routes_in=(
> ('/(([a-zA-Z0-9])*)$' , '/application/controller/function?variable=$1'),
> )
>
> this:
>
> routes_in=(
> ('/(?P<args>([a-zA-Z0-9])*)' , '/application/controller/function?
> variable=\g<args>'),
> )
>
> (The terminal $ on your pattern is harmless, but not needed.)
>
> BTW, question for someone who knows what they're doing: shouldn't  
> these, on principle, be raw strings? I know that \g isn't a Python  
> code, but still....
>
>
>
>
>
> > Thanks
>
> > On Jul 30, 9:15 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> On Jul 30, 2009, at 12:56 PM, LB22 wrote:
>
> >>> After all of the above I was experimenting this afternoon with  
> >>> masking
> >>> urls (not for anything dodgy, I assure you). I'm wondering though,  
> >>> why
> >>> does the below provide the  work as designed on my local machine
> >>> ("localhost"), but not work when on the remote server?
>
> >>> routes_in=(
> >>> ('/(([a-zA-Z0-9])*)$' , '/application/controller/function?variable=
> >>> $1'),
> >>> )
>
> >>> routes_out=()
>
> >>> What's meant to happen is that any string of alphanumeric characters
> >>> entered afterwww.domain.com/istreated as a value to be passed on to
> >>> a function. If there is a trailing slash (or some other non-
> >>> alphanumeric character) it fails to match and url remains as is.
>
> >>> Like I said, I'm just experimenting here, but I'd like to understand
> >>> what is going wrong.
>
> >> So would I.
>
> >> The rewrite routine actually rewrites the match pattern, so it'd be
> >> prudent (I think) to use a named buffer instead of $1, just in case.
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