Caching Proxy Help

About Request Routing

You can create or modify a set of rules for your server to use when mapping URL requests to a file. You can use a list of mapping rules to define a virtual layout of your server's Web resources. The server uses the virtual layout to map requests to actual files. This enables you to change the physical location of your files and directories without any impact to your requesters. Having a virtual layout also lets your server present resources from other file systems and servers as part of its own set of resources.

The server takes the requested URL and processes it through the list of mapping rules. The order of the rules within the list is important because processing starts from the top of the list and continues down. Processing ends when the request is accepted, rejected, or redirected to another server. It is possible for a Map action to change the URL during the processing. The server then uses the new URL for processing subsequent rules.

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