Dynamic routing of a large page

[ben]

Christian, I am getting confused which is not difficult to do to this nearly octogenerian.

If I am right, you are wanting to switch from PHP to NodeJS. In that case, I assume that the remote sever facilitates NodeJS.

For the setup, have a look at

NodeJS FTP deploy on shared hosting with Plesk and cPanel

NodeJS requires a specific setup on your hosting, which is different than the standard Linux or Windows server where you most likely upload everything in the public_html or www folder. Set Up Site in your Hosting Panel In this tutorial we will show you how to setup your hosting through the Plesk panel, but it’s quite similar in cPanel. Create your site in the hosting panel and add NodeJS to it: [unknown] FTP account Then setup your FTP account: [unknown (1)] It should be pointing to thi…

[EinfachChris]

@ben

For the setup, have a look at

that’s exactly what I did (I think) but it doesn’t work.

I’ve wasted several days on this.
Since all my database applications work with php/Mysql, I would like to implement the new project with it.

I just can’t get along with the tutorials on routing.

[ben]

For the routing to work for PHP, you need to have an Apache server running. In other words, if the server is IIS or NGINX then .htaccess is not avaliable.

For IIS you can use a reverse (NodeJS) proxy as per this dicussion

Routing on IIS Windows Server Not Working

I’ve read everything here about routing issues on IIS and spent about ten hours on this so far - I’m banging my head now (I’m sure you all know the feeling har har). My issue is relatively straightforward, I’m working with NodeJS on a Windows / IIS server. Routing enabled, links are relative to site root. My test.ejs page route properties are: [image] Routing works fine on my local Windows machine but once uploaded to the server it falls down. I have URL rewriting module installed in IIS and …

[EinfachChris]

@ben

For the routing to work for PHP, you need to have an Apache server running. In other words, if the server is IIS or NGINX then .htaccess is not avaliable.

Apache, php, mysql and mod_rewrite are running on my server

[Apple]

@EinfachChris

I just can’t get along with the tutorials on routing.

What have you achieved and what are you missing?

Can you already obtain each param of the route?

[EinfachChris]

Unfortunately not, I don’t understand anything here.
Especially how I get the $permalink of the respective page in the route.
Especially in concatenated links (example: www.mysite.de/cat1/location1/produkt1
)

[Apple]

What would be the permalink in that case? The combination of all slash-separated “categories”?

[EinfachChris]

@Apple

What would be the permalink in that case? The combination of all slash-separated “categories”?

www.mysite.de/cat1/location1/produkt1

[Apple]

You’d need to make a route for each case: 1 param, 2 params, 3 params

The permalink is the combination of all these params, you can obtain so by concatenating in Wappler steps, or access a certain $_SERVER variable that might contain that already

[EinfachChris]

Thanks for the information.
But how exactly do I do that?

[Apple]

“Advanced Rewriting with URL Parameters” on Teodor’s tutorial, start by attempting to grab the params

Also, I’m only familiar with NodeJS, so I don’t know if the process to do this is different on PHP

On NodeJS you can attach a server action to a page and there you can run the steps to concatenate the params into a permalink variable

[EinfachChris]

@Apple

On NodeJS you can attach a server action to a page and there you can run the steps to concatenate the params into a permalink variable

Unfortunately I can’t get any Nodejs page online.

[ben]

Christian,

1. Have you set the server side of the project up as per

2. Have you set a target as per

Then there should be no problem in following

URL Rewriting with Wappler

URL Rewriting (also known as Routing) can greatly improve the usability and SEO of your site. It’s really easy to setup URL Rewriting in Wappler visually, without dealing with complicated .htaccess rules and regular expressions. What is URL Rewriting? Most dynamic sites include variables (query parameters) in their URLs that tell the site what information to show the user. For example the following URL tells the scripts on the page to load product number 3: https://someurl.com/product_detail…

You do not need NodeJS for this.

[EinfachChris]

I’ve come that far.
and a simple route works too.

But what’s next?

How do I get out?:
www.mysite.de?pageid=123&pageid=456&pageid=789
ore www.mysite.de?catid=123&subcatid=456&pageid=789
This route: www.mysite.de/cat1/location1/produkt1

[Apple]

@Apple

You’d need to make a route for each case: 1 param, 2 params, 3 params

I see just one, /:permalink/, 1 param (also, erase the slash in the end)

Now create for 2 and 3 params, something like for 3 params:
/:cat1/:cat2/:cat3

[EinfachChris]

ok, I can pull the page content over the permalink.

but how do I get the variables from the link via the route into my query?

www.mysite.de/cat1/location1/produkt1
/:cat1/:location/:product

[Apple]

$_PARAM.cat1

See if you can find a way to access that variable, I only know on NodeJS

[EinfachChris]

sorry, my programming skills are limited

[Sorry_Duh]

Take a look at this if you are wanting to get the URL param into a server connect action

How to access URL params and send to a server action using url rewriting

URL rewriting and accessing the query parameters I’m going to strip away Wappler’s UI first, so you can clearly see what’s happening. Create this route: /:country/:language/product/:product_id [image] How it works: the variable, ex. :country, captures ANY word in it’s place and makes it available as {{query.country}}. So the :country is basically the key. And the word in it’s place will be the value. For example: /norway will be: query.country = norway Note: if you use this directly with…

[EinfachChris]

Thanks Sorry_Duh,

that was exactly what i was looking for all along
Too bad about the long time of the previous conferences

Thank you again!!