CommandBox URLrewrite config location

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Hi, I’m trying (and failing) to locate and setup URL rewrites to mirror my live server for local dev. Does anyone have an insight?
I’m following the instructions here:

And starting the system with:
–rewritesEnable --rewritesConfig=urlrewrite.xml

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OS: OS X 12.7.2
Java Version: 11.0.19 (Homebrew)
CommandBox Version: 6.1.0+00813
Lucee Version: 5.4.6.9 stable (Gelert)

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This is my config, it works for me:

server.json:

{
    "name":"app-name",
    "web":{
        "rewrites":{
            "enable":true,
            "config":"config/urlrewrite.xml"
        }
    }
}

Files position:

/server.json
/config/urlrewriting.xml

HTH

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Thanks, I ended up doing this:

I found the simplest way for me to implement was in the myservername.json that is in my web root.

This is for a url formatted like this:
/news/2025/02/14/my-slug-friendly-headline/

the second example is there to show that you can add lines - I’m sure there are more fancy ways to do it but for local testing it was sufficient.

{
    "name":"myservername",
    "rewritesConfig=urlrewrite.xml":true,
    "rewritesEnable":true,
    "urlrewrites":true,
    "web":{
        "rules":[
            "path-template( '/news/{y}/{m}/{d}/{s}/' ) -> rewrite( '/news/news.cfm?mode=singleitem&year=$y&month=$m&day=$d&slug=$s' )",
            "path-template( '/podcast' ) -> rewrite( '/video/index.cfm?keyword=Podcast:' )"
        ]
    }
}

Hope it helps someone

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