# URL rewriting Best practice/suggestions; Apache mod\_rewrite?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/url-rewriting-best-practice-suggestions-apache-mod-rewrite/6294>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [April 22, 2013, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/url-rewriting-best-practice-suggestions-apache-mod-rewrite/6294 "2013-04-22T13:34:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![billmorone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@billmorone](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/billmorone)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/url-rewriting-best-practice-suggestions-apache-mod-rewrite/6294/1 "2013-04-22T13:34:56Z")

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We would like to shorten/abstract URLs.

From:  
[myDNS/main/system/launch/client/ … ients.jnlp](http://myDNS/main/system/launch/client/oneOfManyClients.jnlp)  
To:  
[myDNS/oneOfManyClients.jnlp](http://myDNS/oneOfManyClients.jnlp)

etc.

There will be multiple clients deployed.

I am looking at Apache and mod\_rewrite (I am less than enthusiastic about putting an Apache WebServer in front of Ignition) and UrlRewriteFilter (I much prefer the jar approach, but I am not sure if this even works)

[code.google.com/p/urlrewritefilter/](http://code.google.com/p/urlrewritefilter/)

Has anyone done this with Ignition?

Is there a best practice/preferred/any other method?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 12:05am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/url-rewriting-best-practice-suggestions-apache-mod-rewrite/6294/2 "2013-04-23T00:05:56Z")

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Um…why in the world would you want to do this? It’s not like humans ever have to look at those URLs.

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/url-rewriting-best-practice-suggestions-apache-mod-rewrite/6294/3 "2020-08-18T00:06:53Z")

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3 posts were split to a new topic: [Rewriting Perspective URLs](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/rewriting-perspective-urls/37830)