Re: web.xml's JSP interception

The web.xml change works nicely - thanks.

The purpose of /users is so that they can be edited over DAV (for  
those on suitable ACLs) ?

- Paul

On Dec 12, 2006, at 6:42 AM, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:

>
> Hello Paul, Waling,
>
>  Many thanks for your feedback! I'll keep tuned for more of it :)
>
>  Regarding paths, Waling suggestion rings true to me. I'll give a  
> word of
> warning though, if the users, roles, or other paths are not well  
> defined,
> slide features will stop to work, or worse, slide will stop  
> altogether. For
> example, if you don’t have the users path defined, it won't be  
> possible to
> define ACLs to any user.
>  Never tried to use that web.xml configuration parameter, so I  
> don't know
> how it will behave if you configure it to serve the "/files" path  
> (will ACL
> feature still work? If yes, how do we identify a user in a, for  
> example, ACL
> command?).
>
> Many thanks,
> Miguel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Waling Dijkstra [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: terça-feira, 12 de Dezembro de 2006 12:00
> To: Slide Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: web.xml's JSP interception
>
> Paul,
>
> you might consider setting <param-name>scope</param-name>
> to <param-value>/files</param-value> in web.xml.
> This will disable access to /users etc.. over webdav though.  
> (unless I've
> overlooked something) (anyone?)
>
> rgrds,
>
> Waling
>
>
>
> On 12-12-2006 06:11, "Paul Hammant" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Miguel,
>>
>> Yes you're right, this is Sitemesh and Slide merged into one web
>> app.  We'll tell more another day! - perhaps when we've done
>> something interesting with the concepts.
>>
>> In this case the JSP is the Sitemesh decorator (not under slide
>> control) and it works sweetly you'll be pleased to know.
>>
>> We wonder if it is possible to remap the directories for slide.  For
>> example, i wish I could have Slide serve files-under-dav control
>> from / rather than /files.  With exceptions for other directories
>> like /decorators.  We have tried to change Domain.xml and change the
>> relevant section, but it does not seem to change the preferred
>> location - "/files".  We kinda want to hide the other directories /
>> users /groups etc and only concentrate on files under DAV control.
>> To get Slide to kinda work like mod_dav does :)
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> - Paul
>>
>> On Dec 11, 2006, at 8:16 AM, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Hammant,
>>>
>>>  If you remove the configuration fragment, the web server will
>>> handle de JSP
>>> file before Slide do. That means, it will compile the JSP, and
>>> serve you
>>> it's compiled contents (witch probably might present you with an
>>> internal
>>> server error page).
>>>
>>>  Since you're asking that question, seems to me that you are  
>>> trying to
>>> deploy a web application inside slide namespace. Although it is
>>> interesting,
>>> don't know if it brings more problems that anyone can handle.
>>>  I don't know Sitemesh, but is it true? You're trying to deploy a
>>> web app
>>> inside slide namespace? If yes, I would be very interested to  
>>> know any
>>> problems you might encounter.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Miguel Figueiredo
>>>
>>
>>
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