Okay...
@ Russ:
I'd like to avoid any sort of rewriting because I most likely will never
have access to the server to do this. I suppose I'm looking for a CF method
of accomplishing this. As to the last part of your response ("point to the
right page"), that's part of my question...how do I point to that page
without using an extension?
@Mike:
I know how to create a default page for each folder. But that's exactly what
I'm trying to avoid. The site I'm working on is fairly shallow...maybe 10
total pages (not counting dynamic pages). So I really don't want to create
loads of folders to contain multiple index pages. I'd like to have an
"events.cfm" page, which will only ever be called using:
http://www.somesite.com/events or /events
Part of this research is because my company (Dealerskins) is looking at the
possibility of having mapped urls for common pages in our system. Right now
when someone wants to look at new car inventory they have to go to
http://www.cardealership.com/pages/page.cfm?pageid=15489. Eventually we'd
like to be able to allow links which look like this:
http://www.cardealership.com/new-inventory/ and somehow map to the
previously mentioned link.
The main problem with IIS rewriting for Dealerskins is that we have 1500
websites which all use the same codebase. For us to add rewrite rules for
every page on every site is not an option.
Andy Matthews
Senior Coldfusion Developer
Office: 877.707.5467 x747
Direct: 615.627.9747
Fax: 615.467.6249
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.dealerskins.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 11:27 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Virtual "pages", without extensions. How to do it?
The best way to accomplish it is with mod_rewrite using Apache. The 2nd
best way is to use some IIS rewrite filter (there was a thread on this
today). The 3rd best way is to set up a custom 404 handler and then parse
the url and point to the right page.
Russ
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 12:04 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Virtual "pages", without extensions. How to do it?
>
> I've been seeing a lot of URLs set up like this in the last yera or so:
>
> http://www.somesite.com/financing/
> or
> http://www.somesite.com/company-info/aboutus/
>
> I have a custom tag that allows me to have a URL like this:
> http://www.somesite.com/page/aboutus
>
> where page is the key and aboutus is the page name. But short of
> creating actual folders with individual index pages, I don't know how
> people are doing this. In the first example, would I create a file
> named "financing.cfm" and somehow map it to that URL? Is there a way
> of accomplishing this in code?
>
> I've got a client I'm going to be working with soon that would like
> nice search engine friendly pages and I'm just doing my research.
> Anyone have ideas?
>
>
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