Apache: Directories and trailing slashes

Apache does something interesting (yes, I still think it’s logical) when you’re accessing a directory that it’s serving: if you access it without a trailing slash, it’ll add one by default. This makes sense if you’re going after some static content or a folder index (or pretty much any sane usage) but it didn’t fit my use case of serving Plone using rewrite rules in a .htaccess file.

The issue that arises for myself with Plone is that my sites need to have their access customised through that .htaccess file and that’s been …

in IT · Mon 18 January 2010

Missing content menus in Plone

Another dose of insanity please!  Coming right up, sir.

Today’s second discussion comes from an issue I was having recently with a new Plone site that I was hosting behind Apache and Deliverance.  No Varnish here yet, because I’d rather the site worked first before I try and cache the life out of it.

Now, the specific problem I was having was that the content menus in Plone (eg Add New, Display, State, Actions and for me, Sub-types) weren’t displaying.  I thought it a Deliverance issue - maybe I was dropping those content items accidentally or not including …

in Plone · Wed 30 September 2009

Rewrite Rules Made Easy

I’ve pretty much got a nice handle on Rewrite rules for Apache. Once you’ve seen a few of them, it’s straight forward enough to replicate for new Plone sites and so forth.

However, to make things even easier on my brain I’ve found this: http://betabug.ch/zope/witch , the Rewrite Rule Witch. Seems like the rules it produces are what I’d expect, which makes me ponder why, if I know they’re right, would I bother.

Reason: easy confirmation and less chance of typos.

in Plone · Thu 08 January 2009