[Moin-user] URL-prefix/path-info with twisted: solution

[Thomas Werschlein]

I found the following solution to the problem:

MoinMoin.request.RequestTwisted.__init__:
   # orig:
   # self.script_name = "/" + '/'.join(self.twistd.prepath[:-1])
   self.script_name = os.environ.get('SCRIPT_NAME', '/') + 
'/'.join(self.twistd.prepath[:-1])

MoinMoin.request.RequestTwisted.__init__:
   # orig:
   #url = "http://%s:%s%s" % (self.server_name, self.server_port, url)
   # we use SSL
   url = "https://%s:%s%s" % (self.server_name, self.server_port, url)

MoinMoin.server.twistedmoin.WikiRoot.getChild:
   # orig:
   # if request.prepath == [] and name == 'wiki':
   if request.prepath == [] and name == 'mywiki':

   # orig:
   # return self.children['wiki'].getChild(name, request)
   return self.children['mywiki'].getChild(name, request)

MoinMoin.server.twistedmoin.makeApp:
   # orig:
   # default.putChild('wiki', static.File(config.docs))
   default.putChild('mywiki', static.File(config.docs))

wikiconfig.py:
   os.environ['SCRIPT_NAME'] = '/mywiki'

Obviously, the changes to MoinMoin.server.twistedmoin (replacing the
hardcoded "wiki" prefix to "mywiki") is a quick and dirty hack. But
since the config is not sourced at this point in time (?), I didn't
see a possibility to make this more configurable. Especially I see
problems when running a wikifarm that should have different document
roots each.

Thanks to Alexander and Paul for their contributions!

Regards, Thomas

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Thomas Werschlein wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've to run a twisted based MoinMoin behind an Apache server using
> mod_proxy. Unfortunately I can't use a special DNS-Name for the wiki,
> but have to use a subdirectory to pass requests over to Moin. E.g.:
> 
> I can't use mywiki.example.com --> localhost:8080
> but have to use www.example.com/mywiki --> localhost:8080
> 
> Now, the problem is, that all subsequent links within Moin don't work,
> since they don't include the "mywiki" prefix in the URL but look like
> www.example.com/RecentChanges instead of
> www.example.com/mywiki/RecentChanges, so mod_proxy can't pass the
> request on to Moin.
> 
> Does anyone know where to include this twisted-"prefix"? The
> url_prefix configuration option only affects static content like CSS
> and images (which I can handle with another ProxyPass directive in
> Apache).
> 
> Any hints are greatly appreciated!
> 
> Regards, Thomas