Well you can do that with frames/iframes or AJAX navigation, or something like that, if I understand you correctly - but you would only ever have one public URL. Depending on your ambitions within search engines (and cross-browser support) it could be done. For a public-facing site I wouldn't ever recommend it, but I guess it's up to your client as long as he knows the potential pitfalls.
David 2009/1/2 <will...@seiter.com>: > Thankyou for the assistance . I am currently using that type of redirect > system inside of my application. What the client wants is for the user to > see the url in the url bar only. No directory names. No page names. Nothing > beyond the '.com' ind the web address. > > Any ideas? > > william > > William Seiter (mobile) > -------------------------- > Web Developer / ColdFusion Programmer > > -----Original Message----- > From: "David Low" <eskele...@gmail.com> > To: "cf-talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> > Sent: 1/2/2009 7:36 AM > Subject: Re: directory masking > > William, > > For the second part of your question (URL rewriting) there are two > ways you can do it. > > Firstly you can redirect _all_ requests (including 404s) to a default > page - let's say index.cfm - and let that page decide what to do with > the request, based on the URL passed in. For example if the URL is > /directory/1/2/3/ then you could parse your way through that URL. > > What the URL rewrite does is send the request to the web server in a > different way. I don't use ISAPI rewrite since I've got Apache > running (mod_rewrite being the equivalent) but most of the time it > works something like this: > > Public-facing URL: http://david.low.me.uk/category/railo/ > > URL rewritten and sent to web server behind the scenes: > http://david.low.me.uk/index.cfm?category=railo > > It can be done a lot more complicated than that, but that's the basic > idea. URLs are rewritten based on a set of rules supplied. > > Hope that's of some use... > > David > > > 2009/1/2 William Seiter <will...@seiter.com>: >> Thank you very much, I will use your suggestions today for the 404 issues > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:317335 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
