web addresses without the .cfm file...

lockmac · Feb 27th, 2008, 10:59

just wandering...sometimes i see web pages that have the adress such as this: www.blahblah.com/?page=hello

how are they getting the /?page=hello without having a dynamic page written before it, example /index.cfm?page=hello?

i am just curious because currently my website first has a group of pages (home, links, products, contact) etc and then the argument p is the name of the CFM file that will be included on the page..
example- http://www.aforattitude.com/products...einaction_book (and in my script, it adds .cfm to the 'attitudeinaction_book' and includes this in the products.cfm page.

basically the reason i am asking this is because ive been told to clean this up, as the person i do this website for believes this is too messy (although they wanted it this way in the first place) and want it to just be like http://www.aforattitude.com/attitudeinaction_book.

Rob · Feb 27th, 2008, 12:24

ok... as you are using cold fusion, I would personally set a .chm file as the custom 404 error handler.

This will allow you to trap non existant url's and re-ma them to the desired handler page.

You can detect url's such as /products/attitudeinaction_book and remap them to products.cfm?p=attitudeinaction_book

Obviously, you need to do this will code in the 404 handler script.

Good luck.

lockmac · Feb 28th, 2008, 02:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rob

ok... as you are using cold fusion, I would personally set a .chm file as the custom 404 error handler.

This will allow you to trap non existant url's and re-ma them to the desired handler page.

You can detect url's such as /products/attitudeinaction_book and remap them to products.cfm?p=attitudeinaction_book

Obviously, you need to do this will code in the 404 handler script.

Good luck.

Does this mean in the url, it will have the address (such as products.cfm?p=products_content or would it just have /products?

Rob · Feb 28th, 2008, 06:55

the url would be /products/attitudeinaction_book in the case of the attitude in action page.