1 file, multiple urls, maybe apache rewrite?

[ThomasJSmart]

Hi,

Im looking to do a little thing, im not sure what its called or how to do it and im not sure what to look for to find a solution :/

This is what i would like:

I have a php website, with all content in databases, a design template and several modules for different content. This is all finished and working lovely.

Now to have the website usable for the end-user there are different html pages, these are only very basic pages with a header, page specific title/keys/descr (loaded from db). and then an include for the layout and such.

currently i have to copy this html file several times giving each one a different name, the php code gets the filename and loads all the apropriate settings and content from the database.

Now i was thinking... wouldnt it be nice to have only 1 html file, say an index.html. but that the user can still enter (and i can have links for) all the pages in the website???

so

http://www.domain.com/home.html

and

http://www.domain.com/info.html

can both be entered or linked to, and this is what the user sees (and stays seeing) in the address field, however the content is loaded from 1 single file on the server, saving me a lot of copy-pasting or html file generation. ofcourse php would still also have to recognise the different urls as i use the page name to get content from the database. and possible some fallback should a page not exist i can handle in php.

is this even possible????


Thomas

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[jpadie]

symbolic links?

mod_rewrite can also do the trick.