Jessica: Also, have you considered using wildcard DNS? As in http://jessica.sample.com You can do that by simply adding a * A host entry in your DNS manager. Michael
> -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 11:41 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Creating replicated sites with coldfusion > > You've got CGI variables at your disposal, when the URL is called. > Provided that the username will equal the path name in every case > > You can use cgi.PATH_INFO and extrapolate the username from the path, and > run your queries accordingly. > > Hth > > sas > -- > Scott Stewart > ColdFusion Developer > > SSTWebworks > 4405 Oakshyre Way > Raleigh, NC. 27616 > (703) 220-2835 > > http://www.sstwebworks.com > http://www.linkedin.com/in/sstwebworks > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jessica Kennedy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 3:14 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Creating replicated sites with coldfusion > > Hi, I am working on a site for a MLM company that wants each person who > signs up with the company to have their own replicated website. The > replicated site is really no more than each person having a separate URL > that is defined by the username they put in when they sign up- > everyone's site is exactly the same otherwise. For example, if I signed > up > for > the program with a username of "jessica" my replicated website's > address would be" "http://www.sample.com/jessica";. > > I do not want to have to create a separate folder & index page for each > & every person who signs up, because that seems like it would be kind > of ridiculous & waste a lot of space, so how can I (firstly) trick the > server into believing there is a separate page for each person even > without a folder with their username existing in my directory? > > Second, and I guess this question could be answered by the first, how > can I get that username to be pulled from the URL for use in dynamic > queries and the like. > > -More or less, I am just wanting to somehow convert a query string such > as "http://www.sample.com?username=jessica"; into the more > user-friendly "http://www.sample.com/jessica";. > > I think i am making this harder than it really is.. hopefully I have > made this clear enough to understand, and any help would be greatly > appreciated! Thanks!! > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:291142 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
