We do something similar to create "custom domains" - but it is really a parlor trick. We set a wildcard in the dns:
*.mydomain.com x.x.x.x.x - points to our web site.... This allows any subdomain starting with anything that is not specifically defined by dns to be routed to that ip address. We can then do something like: bob.mydomain.com mary.mydomain.com admin.mydomain.com socks.mydomain.com keyword.mydomain.com specialprogram.mydomain.com You get the idea. The index page (or missing file handler or whatever) teases out the first item in the domain string and displays content accordingly. Using the approach below combined with a missing file handler the domain could be 1234567.mydomain.com/doge_magnum_headers Obviously this may be no "better" than the technique described below, but it works well for things like personal sites (think real estate), marketing content and the like. If you have "affiliates" that you are tracking they may brighten at the prospect of having their "own" url :) Keep in mind that it would need a dedicated IP address - otherwise you will have to set a host header for every one of the strings - which would sort of defeat your purpose. -Mark -----Original Message----- From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 9:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SEO/SES URL's vs. UUID as primary key I never got into any sort of specifics in that thread. Here are some: First of all, I take query output and use that to come up with a filename. For the sake of argument I'll make that url dodge_magnum_headers_1234567.cfm where the first three elements are keywords pulled from the db record and the last item is the record pk. Its worth noting I actually go thru a fair bit of washing and scrubbing to ensure the keywords pulled from the db are urlsafe and to my liking. No apostrophe's; replace dashes with underscores. That sort of thing. I also preface the url with a folder name that also contains keywords, but which I know doesn't exist (although strictly speaking, it could if I wanted to add a bit into my 404 processing). So the full pseudo url winds up looking like this: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:228621 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
