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Dan at 100 tips and counting (continued)
And so on and so on. Since there are so many possibilities, I began trying to find what they all had in common. One thing that I noted is that I couldn't think of any URL that would have ".nsf/$D" in it that was not trying to use either the $DefaultNav, $DefaultView, or $DefaultForm URL commands, which I did not want people using. So I came up with a total of 12 mappings (16 if your server is case-sensitive) to cover all of the possible URL combinations people might use when attempting to invoke one of the three commands listed above.
Since there are 12 (or 16) mappings, rather than trying to create a URL redirection document for each one, you can alternatively just paste the code below into the httpd.cnf file on your Domino server. Just make sure you make a backup first, however, just in case. Here's the text to insert into the httpd.cnf file:
#######################################
# Redirections to prevent use of $DefaultNav,
# $DefaultView and $DefaultForm URL commands
#######################################
map */*.*/$d* */*.nsf
map */*.*/$%44* */*.nsf
map */*.*/$%64* */*.nsf
map */*.*/%24d* */*.nsf
map */*.*/%24%44* */*.nsf
map */*.*/%24%64* */*.nsf
map */*%2E*/$d* */*.nsf
map */*%2E*/$%44* */*.nsf
map */*%2E*/$%64* */*.nsf
map */*%2E*/%24d* */*.nsf
map */*%2E*/%24%44* */*.nsf
map */*%2E*/%24%64* */*.nsf
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For case-sensitive servers, such as Sun and Linux, add the following additional four mappings:
map */*.*/$D* */*.nsf
map */*.*/%24D* */*.nsf
map */*%2E*/$D* */*.nsf
map */*%2E*/%24D* */*.nsf
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Once you're done modifying the httpd.cnf file, type "tell http restart" on the server console for the changes to take effect. Then start testing your server to make sure everything is working well for you. The redirections should take users to the base URL for the current database, so if the database launch properties aren't set correctly, you might still see a list of views. Note also that you could have a problem if any developers named any design elements starting with "$D", but this seems fairly unlikely.
I want to thank Ben Newman of Quest Enterprises Ltd. (at http://www.quest.ch), a Notes Consultancy based in Zurich, for emailing me about the Hex code issue and posting the information on the PowerBoards. Thanks also to Jorn Bijnsdorp for being the first to post the same information on the PowerBoards. And finally, special thanks to my co-workers Shar Bacchus and Charles Corpuz for helping me immensely with thinking this problem through and coming up with a solution.
Even after all of the thinking and testing I've done trying to solve this problem, I know that there could have been things that I might have overlooked, so if you have any more suggestions or just want to tell me about your experiences trying to deal with $DefaultNav and similar problems, email me at dvelasco@dominopower.com.
For more information about Hex code and Domino URL commands, you can visit the ASCII table with Hex code information at http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/www/comp/docs/ascii.html.
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