Re: .htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation from Bill Roberts on 2009-07-02 (public-lod@w3.org from July 2009)

From: Bill Roberts <bill@swirrl.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 19:19:56 +0100
To: public-lod@w3.org
Message-Id: <D746CEB8-620D-4B41-8903-C15EB6B2D9B5@swirrl.com>

I thought I'd give the .htaccess approach a try, to see what's  
involved in actually setting it up.  I'm no expert on Apache, but I  
know the basics of how it works, I've got full access to a web server  
and I can read the online Apache documentation as well as the next  
person.

So... after an hour or so of messing around, I still couldn't get  
Apache based linked data content negotiation to work properly.   
(Something to do with turning off MultiViews which in turn meant  
fiddling with AllowOverride).  I had more pressing things to do so I  
gave up.

Anyway, I conclude that I agree with Martin that this is not in  
general an easy way to set up content negotiation!  And I had full  
access to all the Apache conf files - without that I wouldn't have got  
anywhere.  In contrast, last year I wrote some code to do linked data  
content negotiation in a Ruby on Rails app, which was pretty easy.

Regards

Bill

Received on Thursday, 2 July 2009 18:20:35 UTC