Folders in the root directory.

[wraygun]

Hi all,

I'm not sure how to phrase this, but I'll give it a shot.

I would like for my users to be able to go to:

for example:

http://www.mywebsite.com/username/

I can do that easily enough dynamically by creating folders in the root directory, but I don't want to fill my root directory with folders. There could be thousands of users.

So my question is:

Is there a method available that would allow me to allow the user to go to (

http://www.mywebsite.com/username/)

but the actual personalized web pages be in another subdirectory(not the root)?

If I need to clarify anything, please let me know.

Thank you very much.

-Harold

***You can't change your past, but you can change your future***

 

[aschi666]

do you maintain the server the site is hosted on? then you can do that with htaccess - check the apache - documentation site for more info.



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[wraygun]

Hmmm...I don't maintain the server per say. It's hosted on BlueHost.com. But I have an 'Apache Extension Handler' in my control panel. Is that the right direction to research? Or am I barking up the wrong tree?

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[aschi666]

i'm sorry, i don't know that "Apache Extension Handler"...so i can't really tell.

i just remember from my recent research about htaccess, that there must be a way to redirect with it.

but actually my answer was stupid, of course you don't need full access to the server to use htaccess - files on it.

have a look at that apache - site...

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[mkrausnick]

The easy solution is to create a USER folder, put the users' folders there, and have the users navigate to

http://www.mywebsite.com/user/username/

Mike Krausnick
Dublin, California

 

[wraygun]

Thanks for all of your suggestions. The .htaccess looks like a great approach if I can work out the following:

I have this working in an .htaccess file:

Redirect /wray [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.wraymusic.com/artist/wray/[/URL]

Is there a way to use a variable to represent 'wray' as in the example above (myvariable or something), so that anyone who came to the site with

http://www.wraymusic.com/myvariable/

would refer them to their folder (in the artist subfolder) if they already have a folder set up on the system?

Thanks again,
Harold

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[wraygun]

Hi there,

I figured this out finally. I couldn't have done it without you. I'd thought I'd post the result to help out anyone else looking for this.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule  ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$  artist/$1   [L]

Thanks again for the pointers.
-Harold

***You can't change your past, but you can change your future***