Proxy mapping question

Hi,

We have a bunch of different departments that each have their own separate web site but all share one web server; their web sites urls are just a subdirectory under the docroot. We gave them each their own branch and workarea(s). So for the "foo" department, here's what it looks like:

Website: http://www.foocorp.com/foo
TS: /default/main/foocorp/foo/WORKAREA/authoring

Now the question I have is, since their url base for links/images/etc is /foo/... is there a way to do a mapping for the proxy based on the branch name, instead of hand coding each of the 160+ department mappings, or forcing them to have all their files in a foo subdir in their workarea? I.e., instead of having to have a hardcoded foo map to /, or forcing them to have all their files live in authoring/foo instead of just authoring.

Thanks,
-Mike

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tvaughan

Hi Mike,

Have you tried setting up the [iwproxy_remap] section in your iw.cfg?

It sounds like you might want something like this:

[iwproxy_remap]
foo_map=/main/foo
bar_map=/main/bar

[foo_map]
_docroot=/foo

[bar_map]
_docroot=/bar

Tom

MikeMoretti

This is exactly what I don't want to do...

I don't want to have to hand code a redirect for all of the 160+ departments... I want to be able to use some kind of regex perhaps based on the branch name instead if possible.

-Mike

tvaughan

Ahhhh. . . .

Then I'm stumped. Short of hacking the HTTP routing process internal to the IW server, I'm not sure how you'd configure your iw.cfg to do that.

I think that all those iwproxy settings get loaded only at the iwproxy and iwwebd process startup, and that you couldn't dynamically determine docroots through some fancy iw.cfg regex.

You could write a pretty quick script that would let you traverse your /default/main branch and spit out the ascii to cut & paste into your iw.cfg. Not an ideal solution, but not too painful either. . .

Good luck,
Tom