I’m looking for an easy way to add routing for “pretty urls” to an existing site.
My existing site uses file paths, e.g. “http://example.com/systemadmin/adminmain.cfm”, but I’d like to be able to use routes like “http://example.com/admin”, “http://example.com/admin/users”, etc.
So far, the only solution I’ve found is using CommandBox/ColdBox and setting up routes in server.json, but it seems that could be a huge pain to convert the site and all existing client installations to run under CommandBox.
Is there a common lightweight routing library available for Lucee? Or would it be possible to just install the router from CommandBox separately?
I’d like the existing urls to just work as-is, but if I get something that doesn’t point to an actual file path, I could use nginx rewrites to map, e.g. “http://example.com/admin” to “http://example.com/index.cfm/admin”, and then in /index.cfm, I could use a router library to map the url path “/admin” to the file “/systemadmin/adminmain.cfm”.
Yes, I could just roll my own…
It doesn’t seem that complicated…but there may be complications/edge cases that I’m not thinking of, and I’d rather not take a bunch of time reinventing the wheel for what is, essentially, a cosmetic issue…