I’d like Rails to intercept the url’s of html pages in a certain
directory so I can embed them in my site. I put them in public/pages and
tried to catch them with a route like
map.connect ‘pages/:pagename’
However this only works if the file does not exist; e.g.
“pages/test.html” will only be routed if that file doesn’t exist,
otherwise it will just show the file.
Is there any other way I can reroute url’s of existing html files?
The reason I need to use the real directory and file names is that these
html pages contain images and cross-links which still need to work.
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 11:15:16PM +0100, Filip G. wrote:
Is there any other way I can reroute url’s of existing html files?
The reason I need to use the real directory and file names is that these
html pages contain images and cross-links which still need to work.
I don’t understand why you need to have the filenames still exist in
public/pages. If you need to access their content, you can stick them
somewhere else (out of public).
I’d be very leery of having Rails handle every single request – you’d
need
to add some sort of generic magic to serve out the static files, as once
the
webserver has handed control off to Rails, I don’t think Rails can throw
back to the webserver and say “I don’t want this one, you take it”.