[Catalyst] URL Aliasing MyApp::Controller - Apache

[Matt S Trout]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 05:53:46PM +0100, Stephen Shorrock wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I was wondering whether anyone has experience of aliasing the Controllers of
> a Catalyst application within Apache.
> 
> Essentially I would like the Controllers of my Catalyst application to have
> their own alias locations eg.
> 
> MyApp::Controller::Area1 to have a URL http://someserver/area1alias
> and
> MyApp::Controller::Area2 to have a URL http://someserver/area2alias
> 
> Rather than
> 
> http://someserver/myapp/area1
> and
> http://someserver/myapp/area2
> 
> respectively
> 
> My current http.conf file is something like:
> 
> <location /app/myapp >
>    SetHandler perl-script
>    PerlHandler MyApp
> </location>
> 
> and I am able to ModRewrite / Alias so that the actions are handled (eg
> area1app -> /app/myapp/area1).  The problem is that the catalyst object ends
> up with the incorrect $c->base, so that when I generate links using the
> $c->base value they are using the '/myapp/areaX' form rather than
> '/areaXapp' form.

If you're going to insist on using mod_perl anyway, why not just have two
apps and alias each one separately?

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