I suppose one reason would be to allow the site to use any language they wish and not be tied to a .php or a .cfm extension.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 8:14 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Virtual "pages", without extensions. How to do it? Why are people doing this? What is the benefit of not showing a page and extension? Andy Matthews wrote: > 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? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:272797 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
