[Xitami] Dynamic URL converstion to static URLs

[Russel Olinger]

I discovered you can also set your default page to "/"

And then create a cgi alias for
     "/" = /xitami/cgi-bin/somescript.pl
You can then use the secondary and teriary default fields for other static 
pages such as "index.html" or "defualt.html"

This will allow your landing page to a be a cgi/perl script in a central 
directory without having to create a filter for script extensions to work 
out side of your cgi directory.  Previously I had a "foo.pl" perl script in 
my root htdocs directory (/xitami/htdocs) and then had "foo.pl" as my 
default page - I needed a filter binding *.pl = /perl/bin/perl to execute my 
landing page....this posed a few maintenance and security problems.

However, the about "/" method also seems to hide directory listings of URL 
directories that do not have a default page.  Though the files in URL 
directories are still individually accessable, the directory is no longer 
viewable as a file/folder listing. This is a great way to protect 
directories from being viewed as file listings if a default page doesn't 
exist in that folder.

I have not found any downsides to this method...anyone else used/seen it 
before to comment on it?

With out any default page in the URL directories:
IE: www.foo.com/images/bar/helloworld.jpg - would still show the image in 
the browser
but : www.foo.com/images or www.foo.com/images/bar  would only yeild the 
following results

File list of /images///////////////////////
directory
Name                Size         Last 
Modified--------------------------------------------------------------------------------/images/////////////////////////
and

File list of /images/bar//////////////////////
directory
Name                Size         Last 
Modified--------------------------------------------------------------------------------/images/bar////////////////////////
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "General" <ronackgen01 at bellsouth.net>
To: "'Xitami Users General Discussion'" <xitami at lists.xitami.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Xitami] Dynamic URL converstion to static URLs


> Yeah whatever, I misspoke! It's the Web Server that does it but the 
> browser
> translates it. You can tell Xitami which file to use by default whether it
> be index.htm,html,php or default.htm,html,php. I expect you could even use
> start.xxx if you wanted. I haven't tried it though.
>
> Thanks for clarifying for me.
>
> Ron
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xitami-bounces at lists.xitami.org
> [mailto:xitami-bounces at lists.xitami.org] On Behalf Of Paul Reid
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 8:28 PM
> To: Xitami Users General Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Xitami] Dynamic URL converstion to static URLs
>
>> http://www.causewaylighting.com/bulbs
>> or
>> http://www.causewaylighting.com/bulbs/index.php
>>
>> Since most browsers if not all browsers assume index.php you can usually
>> leave it off.
>
> The browser assumes no such thing.
>
> The web-server has a default action if a URL points to a Directory
> instead of a File.
>
> Xitami comes pre-loaded to look for the usual default.htm and index.html.
>
> You can add index.php to that list.
>
> Then a call for "../bulbs/" (a directory) is fulfilled with
> "../bulbs/default.htm" or whatever action you have set up.
>
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