url suffix removal

[sickpuppy]

I am curious to know how to remove the file suffixes from a website url in browsers

How can I make my url look like

http://www.thissite.com/information

instead of

http://www.thissite.com/information

.asp

Hope someone can help
Sickpuppy

 

[fxcolin]

I'm not sure if I've ever seen that.

Although let say you have a file that's

http://www.yoursite.com/folder/index.htm

You can set the link to

http://www.yoursite.com/folder

and that will be in the URL of the browser.
and as long as you have an index or default page, it will go straight there.

Maybe someone else can enlighten us if it's possible.

http://www.chefmedia.ca

 

[funkymonk]

That's absolutely correct!

Web browsers pick up index.htm (html) and default.htm (html).

So if you have your site sorted into directories then all you have to do is name the 'main' page in each directory as one of the above.

So with this address:

http://www.yoursite.com/music

Your main page in music will be index.htm (or one of the above) and will be picked up by the browser. Very neat way to do things.
funkymonk B-)

rod@sameplanet.co.uk
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[sickpuppy]

cheers guys

 

[Wullie]

Hi guys,

I am going to confuse things here...

If you go to one of my sites and remove the .shtml extension from the URL then you still see the page in question just as Sickpuppy was wanting..

I run my own server and to be honest, I don't have a clue what it is that activates this but it works..

Hope this helps Wullie

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.searchit-now.co.uk

http://www.survivorhelp.co.uk

 

[Wullie]

Sorry, I meant to mention that it only works if there is no other page, directory or image with the same name..

For example, If I had an image called hello.gif and a page called hello.shtml then it would not work properly..

Hope this helps Wullie

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.searchit-now.co.uk

http://www.survivorhelp.co.uk

 

[funkymonk]

Ahh, sounds like your sever has a little inteligence of it's own.... Does it still have to be named index or default..? funkymonk B-)

rod@sameplanet.co.uk
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[cian]

AFAIk once its an index file it will be picked up. Some of my directories have an index.pl or index.cgi etc and it works also. Alternatively you could just place in an index.htm and have an automatic redirect to the page you want to start from, you'll still end up with

http://your-dom/directory/

I always use these "short url's" as in my sig below








I got bloody bored at the weekend:

http://endamcg.com/hitman/

É,
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[Wullie]

Hi mate,

These are not DirectoryIndex files and they are all in the same directory..

I have a lot of different DirectoryIndex files setup but these are not included in it..

I have changed so much of the server config that it would be hard to pinpoint what directive changes this, but I am 99% sure that you would need access to the httpd.conf file to make this work..

If you chck out the following url's then you should see what I mean. All are in the same directory and nore are set as DirectoryIndex..

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk/maintenance

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk/maintenance.gif

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk/maintenance.shtml

Hope this helps Wullie

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.searchit-now.co.uk

http://www.survivorhelp.co.uk

 

[zumie]

If you are running your own server (and it's IIS) you have the luxury of defining your own default documents for each folder in each web site. You can also put them in the order you want the server to look for them.

i.e. default.htm, then index.htm, then default.asp, then whatever.html etc.

MSB webdev@cox.net

 

[Junior1544]

can can change those options in apachie too... you just need to go into the files to change those things... it's not difficult if you know how to do it... I for one, have no clue how to use Apachee.... never have, and probably wont i use ms products almost exclusivly... (almost)

--Junior JHauge@jmjpc.net
Life is change. To deny change is to deny life.

 

[Wullie]

As previously mentioned, these are NOT DirectoryIndex files!!

BTW. You do not actually need to have access to the server config, it really depends on what your host allows you to do (Or what they have mistakenly set-up)..

Most directives that are used globally in your httpd.conf file can be used inside htaccess for specific directories..

I am not going to go into this as this is a web site designers forum and not an apache forum..

Hope this helps

Wullie

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.searchit-now.co.uk

http://www.survivorhelp.co.uk