Removing index.seam from the url

[romain.dev.easycity.com]

Hi guys,

How can I remove the index.seam from the url when my site loads :

www.mysite.com/index.seam

should look like

www.mysite.com

Thanks ;)

[sleroux]

Hi,

Seam is shipped with the UrlRewrite library which allow ... well ... URL rewriting.

UrlRewrite is based on Apache mod_rewrite, so if you ever used that latter it shouldn't be a problem. Anyway, it's not very difficult to use: please see the online doc which provides several examples.

One last word: You could use URL rewrite to rewrite URL of the form http://myhost/myapp/myfile.xhtml?myparam=myvalue to something more user-friendly like http://myhost/myapp/cooluri/myValue. The point here is, since the config is application based, the name of your app is still in the rewrote url. I don't know if you can strip that out.

Maybe your application server provide a better way of doing it?

Sylvain.

[romain.dev.easycity.com]

Hi Sylvain,

Thanks for your help. UrlRewrite is really handy indead !

Do you know how I can use it to get clean url from an UTF-8 String like :

"Hôtel L'éclaireur" --> http://mysite.com/hotel-l-eclaireur

This
article illustrates what I would like to do (php, drupal).

Do you know a nice way to do it with urlrewrite and java ?

Best,

[sleroux]

I'm not sure to understand.

UrlRewrite is able to transform the URL from the client request to an URL that will be handled by the server.

You could use it to do that:

http://mysite.com/app/hotel-l-eclaireur => http://mysite.com/app/booking/show_info.seam?name=hotel-l-eclaireur

The user see the clean url http://mysite.com/app/hotel-l-eclaireur but the server serves http://mysite.com/app/booking/show_info.seam?name=hotel-l-eclaireur

In URL, you're restricted to a subset of US-ASCII. You cannot have an URL of the form http://mysite.com/app/hôtel-l-éclaireur (ok, I'm sure, you know that;).

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If you just want to convert an arbitrary string to a clean-url, you will only need the Java equivalent to preg_replace. Take a look at java.util.regex.Pattern and to the Java tutorial on regexp.

Sylvain.

[romain.dev.easycity.com]

Thanks Sylvain,

Here is how I'm cleaning up my url using :

     private String removeAccents(String text) {
         return Normalizer.decompose(text, false, 0)
                          .replaceAll("\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}+", "");
     }
     private String cleanUrl(String text) {
          String cleanUrl = this.removeAccents(text);
          cleanUrl = cleanUrl.toLowerCase();
          cleanUrl = cleanUrl.replaceAll("[^\\pL0-9_]+", "-");
          cleanUrl = cleanUrl.replaceAll("[^-a-z0-9_]+", "");
          
          return cleanUrl;
     }

Thanks again for your time.

Cheers