[cgiapp] getting C::A::Dispatch to ignore certain URLs

[P Kishor]

On 1/25/09, Matthew Whipple <mwhipple at kothartech.com> wrote:
> P Kishor wrote:
>
> >
> > Very well put. So, how do I make the webserver (in my case, Apache
> > without mod_perl, for now) serve directly anything under /img (or any
> > other specified folder) without invoking C::A::Dispatch?
> >
> > Many thanks in advance.
> >
> > Puneet.
> >
> >
>  Try moving the img directory out of the directory handled by dispatching
> and then accessing it through an Apache alias.
>
>


hmmm... I was hoping for a different solution. While the above is
doable, it messes up my mellow. My directory structure is thusly

<site folder>/
  - index.cgi
  - _perl/.. various Perl modules for this site
  - _tmpl/.. html templates
  - _logs/.. my own logs
  - css/.. stylesheets
  - js/.. javascripts
  - img/.. images and other media

All folders prefixed with '_' are *not* accessible directly via the
web, while the other folders, css, js and img contain stuff that can
be accessed through a URL. That way I can give some a direct URL to an
image in the img directory, for instance. This also allows me to keep
everything specific to a web application within its own folder. If I
move the img directory outside the <site folder>, I no longer have a
single folder for a single application.

A related question -- am I attempting something that is unusual? I
thought I was doing something very logical and reasonable, but then,
we always tend to think highly of our own strategies until we are
shown better ways.

Many thanks,

Puneet.