URL generation fails for short URL and RSS

[roel]

Short URLs (created in General conference settings) do not work, nor do links generated by the RSS module.

Firstly, neither the RSS module nor short URL creator append a slash to the BaseURL provided in indico.conf, while links generated elsewhere on the site do. E.g. having a BaseURL of "​http://conferences.dtu.dk", the RSS page ​http://conferences.dtu.dk/categoryDisplay.py/rss?categId=0 generates links like:

<guid>​http://conferences.dtu.dkevent/69</guid>

However, compensating for the missing slash, the URL ​http://conferences.dtu.dk/event/69 still gets a 404.

The same holds for ​http://conferences.dtu.dk/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=13 which is supposed to have a short URL ​http://conferences.dtu.dk/event/foobar .

Our server is VirtualHosted? so that DocumentRoot?=/opt/indico/htdocs.

[makub]

The missing slash can be added in indico.conf by changing the default

ShortEventTag        = "event/"

to

ShortEventTag        = "/event/"

The short URLs do not work, because Apache configuration maps /indico to directory /opt/indico/htdocs
and /indico/events does not map to any file or handler.

[pferreir]

The short URLs do not work, because Apache configuration maps /indico to directory /opt/indico/htdocs
and /indico/events does not map to any file or handler.

Well, that is because we assume that this is done at the Apache level. We should definitely add this to the docs (whoever closes the ticket, please check it).
With v0.98 this is not a problem, as our WSGI handler takes care of this automatically.

[makub]

The default value for ShortEventTag? in indico.conf should be changed in the Indico source.

The Apache config for URL redirection is :

    # with mod_rewrite
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^/indico/event/(.*)$ /indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=$1 [R=permanent,L]
    RewriteRule ^/indico/categ/(.*)$ /indico/categoryDisplay.py?categId=$1 [R=permanent,L]

or

   # without mod_rewrite
   RedirectMatch permanent ^/indico/event/(.*)$ /indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=$1
   RedirectMatch permanent ^/indico/categ/(.*)$ /indico/categoryDisplay.py?categId=$1

[lsyroka]

Wiki updated

[Leszek Syroka <leszek.marek.syroka@…>]

In [51830f065d4eaf0a6e82416e5c1588b7d621c274]:

[FIX] Short url generation

• '/' was added in url
• wiki was updated -fix#563

[Leszek Syroka <leszek.marek.syroka@…>]

In [51830f065d4eaf0a6e82416e5c1588b7d621c274]:

[FIX] Short url generation

• '/' was added in url
• wiki was updated -fix#563