[ic] IC5 -> IC6
William Carr
bill at bottlenose-wine.com
Fri Apr 4 13:41:01 UTC 2014
On Apr 3, 2014, at 10:36 AM, William Carr <bill at bottlenose-wine.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 3, 2014, at 3:35 AM, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke at linuxia.de> wrote:
>
>> On 04/02/2014 08:35 PM, William Carr wrote:
>>>
>>> On Apr 2, 2014, at 2:28 PM, Jon Jensen <jon at endpoint.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, William Carr wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible to have a hybrid site where some of the pages are IC5 and some are IC6? What are the general things I'd have to do to make that happen?
>>>>
>>>> Certainly.
>>>>
>>>> You could have IC5 and IC6 integrate directly somehow, but a more general solution would apply to any two or more web app technologies living on the same virtual host (including PHP, Rails, or whatever): Use your web server to carve up the URL space such that e.g. /ic5 URLs go to your Interchange 5 app and /ic6 URLs go to your Interchange 6 app.
>>>>
>>>> In practice, Interchange 5 typically expects to own the whole URL space, so it's easiest to map e.g. /ic6 to your new app and then default everything else to be served as static files if they exist, or by Interchange as a fallback.
>>>>
>>>> For example, in Apache, you could do something like:
>>>>
>>>> # Serve Interchange 6 URLs
>>>> RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
>>>> RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-l
>>>> RewriteRule ^/ic6(/.*) http://localhost:8443/$1 [P]
>>>> ProxyPassReverse /ic6/ http://www.your.domain/
>>>>
>>>> # Let Apache handle URIs whose first directory component exists in the docroot
>>>> # This is a performance tweak to keep Interchange from handling *all* 404s
>>>> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/[^/]+)
>>>> RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%1 -d
>>>> RewriteRule ^ - [L]
>>>>
>>>> # Everything else is handled by Interchange
>>>> RewriteRule ^/(.*) /cgi-bin/catalog/$1 [PT,L]
>>>
>>> Cool, thanks. That helps.
>>>
>>> What about session data? Could there be a notion of sharing session data between IC5 and IC6?
>>>
>>
>> We did a proof of concept for a client. This plugin read / writes IC5 session data from Dancer.
>> Please consider that this isn't tested very well and might not really reliable at this point.
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/racke/9949856
>>
>> Further enhancements are planned.
> I checked that out. Does that have anything to do with this http://search.cpan.org/~yanick/Dancer-1.3121/lib/Dancer/Session/Abstract.pm? I'm confused how to hookup up SessionCrossover.
I think I have this figured out.
I'm making Dancer::Session::Interchange5
Then in my Dancer App.pm I will say....
set 'session' => 'Interchange5';
Please stop me if you think I'm way off.
Bill Carr, President at Bottlenose
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http://www.bottlenose-wine.com
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