Well, I can think of a number of ways. All of the ones I'm thinking of offhand require that you have access to your webserver. Basically, they are (in descending order of preference) mod_rewrite or the IIS equivalent, virtual directories, and a custom 404.
--Ben Doom Jessica Kennedy wrote: > Hi, I am working on a site for a MLM company that wants each person who > signs up with the company to have their own replicated website. The > replicated site is really no more than each person having a separate URL > that is defined by the username they put in when they sign up- > everyone's site is exactly the same otherwise. For example, if I signed up > for > the program with a username of "jessica" my replicated website's > address would be" "http://www.sample.com/jessica";. > > I do not want to have to create a separate folder & index page for each > & every person who signs up, because that seems like it would be kind > of ridiculous & waste a lot of space, so how can I (firstly) trick the > server into believing there is a separate page for each person even > without a folder with their username existing in my directory? > > Second, and I guess this question could be answered by the first, how > can I get that username to be pulled from the URL for use in dynamic > queries and the like. > > -More or less, I am just wanting to somehow convert a query string such > as "http://www.sample.com?username=jessica"; into the more > user-friendly "http://www.sample.com/jessica";. > > I think i am making this harder than it really is.. hopefully I have > made this clear enough to understand, and any help would be greatly > appreciated! Thanks!! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:291138 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
