Jack, Just wanted to add something... We were experimenting with ISAPI rewrite and it is awesome. The one issue we had it that from the COldFusion code standpoint, you have no idea that any re-write too place. That can be a good thing, it can be a bad thing. Let's say you have relative links in your site and someone goes to the page:
About/firm.cfm There might be a link like "../contact.cfm" to go up and to contact. Now, let's say that someone gets to that same page via a ISAPI redirect: Blah/foor/bar/aboutfirm. Now, it redirects in IIS to about/firm.cfm , which is how CF sees it, and hence has links like "../contact.cfm". However, from the browsers standpoint, you are several directories deep and that same link would go to: Blah/foo/contact.cfm Which is way off. So basically, you just have to accept that with ISAPI rewrite, you can't have relative links on pages that might be accesseed in these two different ways. Also from the CF standpoint, there are no CGI variables available that would allow the programmer to know if an re-write was done. Now, this is with my LIMITED experience so this may be wrong. But it was I have found. If I am wrong PLEASE correct me as I really would like to use ISAPI rewrite. ....................... Ben Nadel Web Developer Nylon Technology 350 7th Avenue Floor 10 New York, NY 10001 212.691.1134 x 14 212.691.3477 fax www.nylontechnology.com "Some people call me the space cowboy. Some people call me the gangster of love." -----Original Message----- From: Jack Dalaa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 4:29 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: User Friendly URLs for dynamic content For any kind of high volume, you will definitely want to do this on the Web server level, on IIS with ISAPI Rewrite (http://www.isapirewrite.com) or similar, or on Apache mod_rewrite. Both fairly easy to setup and configure, and can do what you're asking, with zero change to your CF app. Much more flexible, much more scalable. My 2 cents. >What are some ways to make URLs more friendly for our product pages? >My marketing guy wants to put these types of URLs in his ads: >mydomain.com/ProductA >mydomain.com/ProductB >mydomain.com/ProductC > >I know I can do a subdirectory named ProductA and use <cflocation> to >do a redirect, but is their an easier way when I have 50 or more possiblities? >I'd rather not have to create a directory and a default.cfm per product. > >One thought I had was to change the slash to a question mark. But I'm >not sure if the marketing dude will go for it. > >Thanks. > >-- >Matt Williams >"It's the question that drive us, Neo." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:243046 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
