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Change the URL to request LiveSite 3.0 pages

jamessteel

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[font=Arial]I am requesting some much needed advice regarding the best way to adjust the configuration of Tomcat/LiveSite to meet my needs.

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[font=Arial]I am using LiveSite 3.0 with the Tomcat directly serving pages and configured for requests on port 80.

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[font=Arial]At present in order to request pages on the web site it is necessary to make a request to:

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[font=Arial]http://SERVERNAME/sites/SITENAME/home.page and

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[font=Arial]http://SERVERNAME/sites/SITENAME/folder/subfolder/any.page

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[font=Arial]What is the best way to re-configure so that requests can be made as follows?

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[font=Arial]http://SERVERNAME/home.page and

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[font=Arial]http://SERVERNAME/folder/subfolder/any.page

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[font=Arial]In other words I don't want visitors to have to type "sites/SITENAME" into the URL

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[font=Arial]I have tried using the Url Rewrite Filter available at http://www.tuckey.org/urlrewrite/ however I have not yet been able to get it working the way I need.

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[font=Arial]If this could be achieved by putting a webserver in front of Tomcat then I would try this as a last resort. I'd prefer to use IIS in that case.

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[font=Arial]Does anyone have a solution? I'm sure that this must have come up previously however I can't see any threads relating to it.

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[font=Arial]Thanks!!!

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jamessteel

Update:

I have now been able to successfully make requests
to:
http://SERVERNAME/home.page and
[font=Arial]http://SERVERNAME/folder/subfolder/any.page[/font]
and have them serve as:
http://SERVERNAME/sites/SITENAME/home.page and
[font=Arial]http://SERVERNAME/sites/SITENAME/folder/subfolder/any.page[/font]
using the Url Rewrite Filter available at http://www.tuckey.org/urlrewrite/

This seems to be the same as doing:

HttpServletResponse.sendRedirect([to value])

LiveSite is correctly serving .page files and .htm files as above from my testing so far Smiley Happy

Now, the thing that I would really like to achieve next is to have the address bar after the request is served show the "nice" URL rather than the longer "sites/SERVERNAME" one.

I can get the "nice" URL as I would like for .htm files only by using 'forwarding' instead of 'redirecting' which is something like:

RequestDispatcher rq = request.getRequestDispatcher([to value]);

rq.forward(request, response);

[font=Arial]For .page files it unfortunately doesn't work and I still get the "/sites/SITENAME" URL. Smiley Sad

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Any ideas? I realise that URL masking is a bit out there with frames and what-not (don't want to go there) and I also have heard that LiveSite 3.1 has a URL alias feature. This is not available to me as yet and I need a go-live solution for 3.0. Any help would be extremely appreciated.

jamessteel

Solved. In the absence of any replies we have sorted this out ourselves Smiley Very Happy

set up a java class as a filter in TomCat
class intercepts HttpRequest for .page files and rewrites the URL
page can be requested with the original URL or the nice URL and the address bar will show whatever you typed in

I'm sure someone must've come up against this before now and needed to solve it some way or other. It is ridiculous to have to have /sites/SITENAME/ prepended to a LiveSite page

Selva_Subbu

Hi,

I have the same requirement, Could you explain what java class and where in the tomcat need to set as a filter...

thanks in advance...

Thanks
Selvaraj S

jamessteel

The java class is a custom class we developed that overwrites the context path. Once the class is in place you need to rebuild the LiveSite application.The filter settings ned to be placed in web.xml immediately above the siteresolver filter.

The redirect functionality you are trying to implement from http://www.tuckey.org/urlrewrite/
is just that - for redirects only. It will not get rid of sites/sitenname from the URL

Selva_Subbu

thanks for your updates.

Could you pls send the sample java code for reference... It will be helpful with this tight schedule...

thanks
Selvaraj S

Selva_Subbu

Hi,

Still this issue is not resolved. Can anyone help in this.

Once its redirect i need to display with the proper URL like

Example:
http:///folder-name/index.html

Thanks
Selva

catorarn

We are trying the same, but when I have the site http://localhost:1776 forwarding with my servlet class, the chain breaks. Can someone maybe look at my code to see what I am doing wrong?

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LiveSiteRewriteFilter

com.interwoven.livesite.rewrite.filter.FilterSitesFromInLinks

avoid-urls

/iw/,/iwov-resources/,/templatedata/

attribute

default

LiveSiteRewriteFilter

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package com.interwoven.livesite.rewrite.filter;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

import javax.servlet.Filter;
import javax.servlet.FilterChain;
import javax.servlet.FilterConfig;
import javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;

public class FilterSitesFromInLinks implements Filter{
 private FilterConfig filterConfig ;
 private ArrayList urlList;
 private static Log log = FilterSitesFromInLinks.getLogger(FilterSitesFromInLinks.class);
 private String attribute;

@Override
 public void destroy() {
  this.filterConfig = null;
 }

 public void doFilter(ServletRequest req, ServletResponse res,
            FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {

  String SITE_INDEX_PAGE = "sites/Component Guide/Home.page";

        HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest) req;
        HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse) res;

        log.info("*********GOT THE REQUEST AND RESPONSE*******");
        String url = request.getRequestURI();
        log.info("****URI:" + url);

         String referrer = request.getHeader("referer");
         log.info("REWRITE-CHECK-FILTER -- REFERRER : " + referrer);

         String Incoming_Url=request.getRequestURI();

         log.info("attribute value is: " + attribute);

         if( ( attribute.contains("default")) && request.getRequestURI().equals("/")){
          log.info("in getRequestURI block and incoming URL " + Incoming_Url);
          attribute = "redirected";
          log.info("requestURI attribute " + attribute);
          RequestDispatcher rd = request.getRequestDispatcher(Incoming_Url + SITE_INDEX_PAGE);
          rd.forward(request,response);
          //response.sendRedirect("Incoming_Url + SITE_INDEX_PAGE");
          attribute = "default";
          return;
         }
         else{
          log.info("begin chain");
          chain.doFilter(req, res);
          log.info("end of else chain");
         }

      chain.doFilter(req, res);
      log.info("end of outer else chain");

    }

    public void init(FilterConfig config) throws ServletException {
     log.info("******INSIDE FILTER: -- INIT METHOD*****");
        String urls = config.getInitParameter("avoid-urls");
        attribute = config.getInitParameter("attribute");
        StringTokenizer token = new StringTokenizer(urls, ",");
        log.info("*********GOT THE AVOID URL's: " + token);
        log.info("*********GOT THE ATTRIBUTE: " + attribute);
        urlList = new ArrayList();

        while (token.hasMoreTokens()) {
            urlList.add(token.nextToken());

        }
    }

    /**
     * Gets a {@link Log} object for the specified Class
     * @param clazz - class for which the {@link Log} object is created
     * @return {@link Log} for the requested Class
     */
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public static Log getLogger(Class clazz) {
        Log log = LogFactory.getLog(clazz);
        return log;
    }

}

I get forwarded to the page, but the page XML displays as the LiveSiteFilter is never reached in the chain I think. I am not sure why.

(spaces in the class name are just devnet formatting)

Rick Poulin

We are trying the same, but when I have the site http://localhost:1776 forwarding with my servlet class, the chain breaks. Can someone maybe look at my code to see what I am doing wrong?

Giving you this answer feels like telling a unix newbie about 'rm -rf' without supervision... so please go read the Java spec about servlet filters before using any of this. Also, don't put custom classes in "com.interwoven". This makes it very hard for anybody doing work later to distinguish custom classes from OOTB.

The fact that you're using the request forward and returning means that you're bypassing the LiveSite RequestFilter entirely, and asking your servlet container to render a .page. Your servlet container has no **** idea what a .page is, so it takes a guess and gives you the raw XML. What you want to be doing is changing the incoming HttpServletRequest object to have a different URI to 'trick' the LiveSite RequestFilter into thinking the incoming URI is actually something different, and then continue the filter chain with your modified request object.

Now there's a crapload of pitfalls with doing that so I'm intentionally not giving you sample code. Either use a library like Tuckey that does this for you, or do a heck of a lot more reading on the interwebs to really understand the mechanics of what you're looking to do.

TL;DR: it's not basic stuff.

Kindly help if anyone has been able to achieve this successfully. My requirement is exactly the same. Livesite Filter getting bypassed and hence getting complete XML as output instead of rendered .page.