URLs resolution

In a single instance of XWiki you have many sections and the URLs need to reflect all that. This documentation details the way URLs are parsed by XWiki and what means each part of it.

Protocol

By default "http" is used when generating an url in XWiki. You can set "secure" parameter to true in a wiki descriptor to generate urls with "https" in "http".

See How to edit wiki descriptor.

Host

• The first thing XWiki do to find the right wiki the URL is pointing to is by trying to find wiki1.xwiki.org in the list of wiki descriptors. Comparing with the content of field server in objects of class XWiki.XWikiServerClass
• If no descriptor can be found:
  • if the host is an IP (127.0.0.1, 85.65.12.36, etc.) XWiki goes to main wiki
  • if the first part of the host name (what is before the first point) is "www" XWiki goes to main wiki
  • if the first part of the host name match a wiki identifier XWiki goes to this wiki

Application context (OPTIONAL)

See ShortURLs for more details on how to remove this part of the url.

It's what the web container (jetty, tomcat, glassfish, etc.) use to find XWiki in all the web applications it contains. To remove it mainly depends on the possibilities and configuration of your web container.

Servlet mapping name (OPTIONAL)

See ShortURLs for more details on how to remove this part of the url.

This is used by the container to call the right servlet.

It can be:

• /bin/: it's the default action is none is specified. It calls the standard XWiki view to edit/view/delete wiki page etc.
• /wiki/wikialias: call the same servlet but will be use to determine the subwiki to acces if xwiki.virtiual.usepath is enabled in xwiki.cfg. Notes that you can change the "wiki" part with anything else using xwiki.virtual.usepath.servletpath and by modifying web.xml to reflect the new Struts action name. If the struts action name is the same that.
  • XWiki tries to match a wiki descriptor with the provided wikialias like it was a domain name
  • then if it can't find any wiki descriptor it search for it with wikialias as wiki name
• /xmlrpc/: call xmlrpc servlet.
• /webdav/: call webdav servlet. See WebDAV for more details.

Struts action (OPTIONAL)

See ShortURLs more more details on how to remove this part of the url.

When the servlet mapping name is bin or the value of xwiki.virtual.usepath.servletpath, XWiki use "action" identifiers to determine what is the goal of the user when going to a page.

For example if the action is "edit", XWiki will print an editor the user use to modify a page content but if the "view" action is used XWiki will execute the page content to print/render the content.

Space

All XWiki page are located in what is called a "space". You have only one level of space but you can indicate a "parent space" for a space.

Page

The page is what contains wiki contents and objects/classes and attachments.

Attachment

This part indicate the attachment you want to download from a particular page.

Query string

Actions can use URL parameters to modify there action depending of there value.

For example you can make a velocity script that print the content of this value with:

if you have a parameter "param1=Hello World" the result will be