[Catalyst] Handling a path of '/'

[Chisel Wright]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:04:03PM -0600, Justin Guenther wrote:
>    Am I missing something? Any help would be appreciated.

This sounds very much like the example I posted yesterday - about much
the same problem.

It's my understanding (and yesterday's example seems to back me up) that
you can use "sub index : Private { ... }" to catch '/' URLs.
In MyApp.pm it would catch http://server:3000/ and in MyApp::C::Foo it
would catch http://server:3000/foo/

I think (but haven't tested) that one way would be for you to have the
following in MyApp.pm:

sub index : Private {
  my ($self, $c) = @_;
  $c->response->redirect('/menu');
}

Skimming the docs, "$c->forward('/menu')" may also work in place of the
redirect.

I tend to take the lazy way out. My global default() redirects to 'the
default application action' [e.g. /client/list] and each controller
default usually redirects to the appropriate list view.

That way, any rubbish URLs that people use will result in seeing
something useful, instead of a 404.

Chisel
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