URL Parsing on Apache or IIS

filesiteguy

I am coming up with a new site, which will be community-driven and
subscription-based. I would like for people to go ato a URL that is
friendly and easy to remember.
Let's say my domain is mydom.com. I am a new user who just registered
newsite as my name. I want to load a PHP file, but call it something
other than - say - default.php. In other words, I want to load a
pagedefault.php file which will pull information from a database based
on the user's name. There are not going to be user directories. (The
user will have no ability to upload using FTP.)

As I currently see it, I can do something like:
http://www.mydom.com/default.php?username=newsite

What I'd like to do is something like:
http://www.mydom.com/newsite/default.htm on the address bar of the
browser. This will be parsed into the correct parameter
(username=newsi te) and the correct page (default.php) will be loaded.
I noticed one semi-related item here from a bit ago..

www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/421.htm

This forum post describes the use of MOD_REWRITE.

Ideas?
Kai
www.perfectreign.com - The Project Management Site

Jul 17 '05 #1

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Andy Hassall

On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 13:09:24 -0700, filesiteguy <ab***@127.0.0. 1> wrote:

As I currently see it, I can do something like:
http://www.mydom.com/default.php?username=newsite

What I'd like to do is something like:
http://www.mydom.com/newsite/default.htm on the address bar of the
browser. This will be parsed into the correct parameter
(username=news ite) and the correct page (default.php) will be loaded.
I noticed one semi-related item here from a bit ago..

www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/421.htm
Can't see it, need to register.
This forum post describes the use of MOD_REWRITE.

I agree, use mod_rewrite.

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Andy Hassall <an**@andyh.co. uk> / Space: disk usage analysis tool
http://www.andyh.co.uk / http://www.andyhsoftware.co.uk/space

Jul 17 '05 #2

John Dunlop

filesiteguy wrote:

I am coming up with a new site, which will be community-driven and
subscription-based. I would like for people to go ato a URL that is
friendly and easy to remember.
Commendable, old boy.

Persistency is another consideration. But I bet you've already
thought of that and filed it under "friendly". Non-persistent URIs
are surely unfriendly.

[ ... ]
As I currently see it, I can do something like:
http://www.mydom.com/default.php?username=newsite

What I'd like to do is something like:
http://www.mydom.com/newsite/default.htm on the address bar of the
browser.
Good, that's definitely better; yet it could be improved upon. Why is
"default.ht m" tacked on the end? I don't like it. Firstly, "default"
isn't very descriptive. What information can a user gain from that
part of the URI? Secondly, going back to the persistency principle,
will your file still be HTML ten years down the line? Get rid of
".htm" too. Make it work with or without the www subdomain and the
trailing slash, but be cache-friendly by being consistent with what
you publish.

What constraints are placed on site names? E.g., length, case,
characters allowed, etc.

[ ... ]
This forum post describes the use of MOD_REWRITE.

See also <http://httpd.apache.or g/docs/misc/rewriteguide.ht ml>.

--
Jock

Jul 17 '05 #3

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