HELP! www.myspace.com/whatever how is it going to a particular page...

[jonaofarc]

HELP! www.myspace.com/whatever how is it going to a particular page, usually one would have something like userID=Something in the URL and it will point somewhere but in this case just www.jamba.com/johndoe how does this work? anyone

[Asday]

HELP! www.myspace.com/whatever how is it going to a particular page, usually one would have something like userID=Something in the URL and it will point somewhere but in this case just www.jamba.com/johndoe how does this work? anyone

 

Ok, that made no sense to me.

[Jewbilee]

it made total sense to me just by reading the topic..

 

he wants to know:

 

how does www.myspace.com/username forward to the proper url or something like... myspace.com/viewprofile.php?username=username.  I've gotten it working before, but I cant remember so someone else will have to help

[zq29]

It's done with URL re-writing. Apache has the module mod_rewrite that handles this. The rules are based on regular expressions, so something like

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9])$ /view.php?user=$1

would point http://something.com/someone would point to http://something.com/user.php?user=someone

[jitesh]

In web server admin is setting a directory index

 

For example the seting is like this

 

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html login.php .........

 

when you write

www.myspace.com/whatever

 

in whatever folder -> server search index.php file. if do not found index.php then search index.html if do not found index.html then search login.php and so on...

if search found the file then execute it which you are not founding in address bar.

otherwise you will get "Page can not be Found".

[jonaofarc]

URL re-writing, thats what I needed to know, I'm going to read up on this now. In the mean-time thank you for taking the time out of your lives to help me figure this out. Jona.