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How to make something - help needed
| Posted by George Chatzidelios, 02-03-2010, 04:09 PM | | I don't exactly know how to describe this so I'll just use an example.
In some sites lately when you click a link you get redirected and its been shown as a folder.
What I mean is, lets say for example that you are clicking at support.html
What I mean is that it will now be shown as wwwm,site,com/support/ and not support.html
I thought the simple way of making folders with the name shown and just putting an index.html inside but someone told me that this is done with .htaccess file. I am not sure if he knew what he was saying...so I need your help now
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| Posted by cygnusd, 02-03-2010, 04:33 PM | | With Apache's .httaccess, you can easily add a RewriteRule that will redirect a particular url prefix/regex to some url. With rewrites, one can even set it to do reverse proxy mode where the url stays on /support/ but is actually reading the contents of /some/other/dir/support.html or something).
Read more on Apache's RewriteRule for more information.
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| Posted by George Chatzidelios, 02-03-2010, 04:37 PM | | I see....so that whole thing has to do with the .htaccess file only.
And this "feature" that I will use is at any way slowing down the browsing?
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| Posted by cygnusd, 02-03-2010, 05:05 PM | | No, a Rewrite should be fast (almost negligible processing time). Not unless you have thousands of rewrites on your .htaccess
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| Posted by George Chatzidelios, 02-03-2010, 05:06 PM | | Ok thanks for the info mate.
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| Posted by cygnusd, 02-03-2010, 05:29 PM | | no problem =)
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