Forum OpenACS Q&A: How to use a URL without tcl extension in aolserver

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1: How to use a URL without tcl extension in aolserver
Posted by Jorge Garcia on 01/13/05 01:41 AM
Hi, I want to use a URL who points to a tcl file, but I don't want the '.tcl' part appears in the link, i.e. 'www.web.com/file', where 'file' in the link equals 'file.tcl'

How can I get this?.

With aolserver 4.05 I get the content of the code in my browser as text.

If I use the full name 'file.tcl' all goes OK.

I vaguely remember I could use a link to a tcl file without using the .tcl extension and aolserver searching the dir for a file with the same name?.

Am I wrong?

I wish the following priority in the files:
file (without .tcl extension), file.tcl, file.adp, file.html

Need I to add some parameter to the aolserver configuration?

Thanks.

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2: Re: How to use a URL without tcl extension in aolserver (response to 1)
Posted by Rocael Hernández Rizzardini on 01/13/05 02:32 AM
I guess you aren't using openacs?, because if you were that case will work well.
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3: Re: How to use a URL without tcl extension in aolserver (response to 1)
Posted by Jorge Garcia on 01/13/05 09:58 AM
Right, Rocael.

Any help for aolserver only?.

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4: Re: How to use a URL without tcl extension in aolserver (response to 1)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 01/13/05 10:08 AM
have you set
ns_param enabletclpages true
in section
ns_section "ns/server/${servername}"
of your config.tcl file?

best regards

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5: Re: How to use a URL without tcl extension in aolserver (response to 1)
Posted by Jorge Garcia on 01/13/05 03:40 PM
Yes.

enabletclpages is set to true.

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6: Re: How to use a URL without tcl extension in aolserver (response to 1)
Posted by xx xx on 01/14/05 12:57 AM
Try pointing NoExtension parameter (under ns_section "ns/mimetypes") to tcl, maybe.

http://www.aolserver.com/docs/admin/config-detailed.html

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7: Re: How to use a URL without tcl extension in aolserver (response to 1)
Posted by Andrew Piskorski on 01/16/05 06:41 AM
No Aldert, I don't think that is going to work. Jorge, see my answer to your question on the AOLserver list, and also Ramesh Venkitaswaran's answer. Those are the correct solutions to what you're asking for here.
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8: Re: How to use a URL without tcl extension in aolserver (response to 1)
Posted by xx xx on 01/16/05 03:55 PM
You are probably right, Andrew. If haven't looked at how OpenACS has solved it, but what about mapping a directory? This would specify that the server should parse all files in that directory for Tcl commands, right?

ns/server/'servername'/adp
ns_param "map" "/mypages-dir"