connect-modrewrite

connect-modrewrite

connect-modrewrite is a middleware for connect. It adds modrewrite functionality to your project.

Getting started

Install connect-modrewrite with:

npm install connect-modrewrite

Require it in your Gruntfile.js file:

var modRewrite = require('connect-modrewrite');

In grunt.initConfig please add the following code snippet:

connect: {
  server: {
    options: {
      port: 9001,
      base: 'example',
      keepalive: true,
      middleware: function(connect, options) {
        return [
          modRewrite([
            '^/test$ /index.html',
            '^/test/\\d*$ /index.html [L]',
            '^/test/\\d*/\\d*$ /flag.html [L]'
          ]),
          connect.static(options.base)
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

Configurations

In the example above, modRewrite take as an Array of rewrite rules as an argument. Each rewrite rule is a string with the syntax: MATCHING_PATHS REPLACE_WITH [FLAGS]. MATCHING_PATHS should be defined using a regex string. And that string is passed as an argument to the javascript RegExp Object for matching of paths. REPLACE_WITH is the replacement string for matching paths. Flags is optional and is defined using hard brackets. We currently only support the last flag [L]. Please give suggestions to more flags that makes sense for connect-modrewrite. Keep in mind that grunt-contrib-connect is meant to be a simple static server.

Inverted URL matching

Begin with ! for inverted URL matching.

Flags

Last [L]

If a path matches, any subsequent rewrite rules will be disregarded.

Authors

Tingan Ho, tingan87[at]gmail.com

License

Copyright (c) 2012 Tingan Ho Licensed under the MIT license.