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Simple URL's (?)

         

json

7:50 am on Sep 16, 2005 (gmt 0)



I'm a rookie at Apache with a question that you guys might think is very simple.. I'd like to simplify the URL's on my website, from the entire directory structure (e.g. http://my.example.com/documents/install/info.html) to just the website name (e.g. http://my.example.com) regardless of what you're accessing..

Is this anything that's possible to do.. I have seen this possibility in IIS earlier.

Really appreciating all the help I can get.. :-)

/J

[edited by: jdMorgan at 2:54 pm (utc) on Sep. 16, 2005]
[edit reason] Example.com [/edit]

jdMorgan

3:04 pm on Sep 16, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



json,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

This approach involves the use of tracking cookies to store the visitor's current location within your site, and replaces link-based navigation with a scripted navigation method. As such, it adds complexity, dependencies, and inefficiency, confuses the visitor, makes it impossible to bookmark pages in your site, destroys your search engine rankings, and won't work at all if the visitor's browser configuration blocks cookies or client-side scripts from new or untrusted sites. Development and testing time and cost are also an issue.

I strongly recommend that you focus on improving and/or shortening the real URLs used on your site instead of using this method.

Jim