Maybe you should consider the yahoo method, where they're using a dedicated sub-
domain.
For example:
users.xyz.com
And I agree that the solution of depending on 404s is not a pretty solution.
Frans
> That seems kinda kludgy. Try mapping all initial requests to a controlling servlet
>that then obtains the userName from the pathinfo, validates it against the DB, and
>forwards to the user's custom page..
>
> cheers
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Guys,
>
> We have a small requirement to paly the the URL....
>
> Basically there is a domain for example www.xyz.com
>
> and when someone types www.xyz.com/UserName (Username can be any user in the
>Database) it should take him to a custom page which is customised for that particular
>user. So I would go and type www.xyz.com/senthoor.
>
> The problem is normally it throws a 404 since this /senthoor is not mapped and what
>we did was we cought the 404 and re-directed to a JSP and captured the URL extracted
>the "UserName" validated against the DB and loaded the custom page....
>
> But this worked as specified in WebLogic but when we ported it to Oracle Application
>Server it give a 500 error.
>
> I would like to know whether there exist any other solution for this except
>capturing 404s and 500s. Basically since the username is growning in the Database
>with members signing in we can't have servelet mapping to handle this too...
>
> Senthoor
>
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