web2py Application Development Cookbook

Chapter 9. Routing Recipes

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Making cleaner URLs with routes.py

• Creating a simple router

• Adding a URL prefix

• Associating applications with domains

• Omitting the application name

• Removing application names and controllers from URLs

• Replacing underscores with hyphens in URLs

• Mapping favicons.ico and robots.txt

• Using URLs to specify the language

Introduction

At its core, web2py contains a dispatcher that maps URLs into function calls. This mapping is called routing, and it can be configured. This may be necessary in order to shorten URLs, or to deploy a web2py application as a replacement for a pre-existing application, by not wanting to break old external links. web2py comes with two routers, that is, a ...