[EP-tech] How to emulate former persistent uri schemes?

[Florian Heß]

Hi,

to have persistent urls is just fine. Yet, as a logical consequence, 
that means that the validity/availability of a URI must be guaranteed 
even no matter which repository software happens to work behind the scenes.

Thus, how can I make EPrints emulate our former persistent document URLs 
according to the scheme $base/volltexte/$year/$id[/$ext/$file]? Hope 
that is possible in EPrints without hacking EPrints::Apache:Rewrite, is it?
(The year part doesn't need to match properly, i.e. whether a document 
is cited by volltexte/1999/445 or volltexte/2071/441, it should be no 
problem so we avoid requesting the database. The ext part neither.)

Mod_rewrite rules or ScriptAlias directives (by which we could install a 
cgi script to handle anything after "/volltexte/...") do not seem to be 
respected while that module is in effect, right?


Regards,
F Heß


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