Hi
I've been asked to have a look at revising the structure of the URLs
at one site by giving them more user-friendly aliases. The motivation
for this is mainly search engine optimisation (by giving the site more
of an apparent hierarchical structure) but also some useability issues
(easy to remember URLs for certain site sections).
There is no 'real' site restructuring involved - i.e. all the
'controller' scripts and content pages remain the same. It's just a
question of making them accessible with simpler URLs, preferably
without query parameters.
The most obvious approach that springs to mind is to use the On
Request handler to intercept the friendly URL, interperate it, and
then direct the request to the appropriate script with the appropriate
query parameters. The problem with this is that I think the browser
then gets the internal URL when the response comes back (I haven't
tested this - I'm just assuming that's what happens).
If anyone has dealt with this kind of thing and cares to share any
tips with me I'd be interested to hear them.
(b.t.w. the site is fronted by Apache and that could be part of the
solution, but I'd hoped to do something more general in 4D. Plus I'm
not a regex expert).
Many thanks.
Peter
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