better rewriting recipe

mojolicious · Jun 8, 2013 · 268dd3e · 268dd3e
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diff --git a/lib/Mojolicious/Guides/Cookbook.pod b/lib/Mojolicious/Guides/Cookbook.pod
@@ -252,16 +252,19 @@ you can use a C<before_dispatch> hook to rewrite incoming requests.
   });
 
 Since reverse proxies generally don't pass along information about path
-prefixes your application might be deployed under, rewriting the base URL of
+prefixes your application might be deployed under, rewriting the base path of
 incoming requests is also quite common.
 
-  # Change base URL and remove leading slash from path in production mode
+  # Move first part and slash from path to base path in production mode
   app->hook(before_dispatch => sub {
     my $self = shift;
-    $self->req->url->base(Mojo::URL->new('http://example.com/myapp/'));
-    $self->req->url->path->leading_slash(0);
+    push @{$self->req->url->base->path->trailing_slash(1)},
+      shift @{$self->req->url->path->leading_slash(0)};
   }) if app->mode eq 'production';
 
+L<Mojo::URL> objects are very easy to manipulate, just make sure that the URL
+is always relative to the base URL.
+
 =head2 Application embedding
 
 From time to time you might want to reuse parts of L<Mojolicious> applications