Hi all:

Simple question.

I have something like http://www.domain.com/webthing/weblook/login.htm
and I
want to change all that to just http://www.domain.com and people would
still
see the same thing.

New to Apache so can someone me out?

-TIA

-John

On 2007-02-08, Johnny <lilgrasshopper@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have something like http://www.domain.com/webthing/weblook/login.htm
> and I
> want to change all that to just http://www.domain.com and people would

Very bad thing to do: first of all your clients won't be able to do things
like bookmarks, in second I found these kind of 'trick' really uggly.
Anyway, the only way to do so is to create a index page in the root
directory of the web server with a frame that redirect to wathever
page you want, the client will see the URL of the external frame. Note
that this is quickly defeated if the client just show the internal
frame. And no, there is no other way to do it. Otherwise your site
won't work at all.

Davide

--
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-- Albert Dorofeev

Davide Bianchi wrote:
> On 2007-02-08, Johnny <lilgrasshopper@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have something like http://www.domain.com/webthing/weblook/login.htm
>> and I
>> want to change all that to just http://www.domain.com and people would
>
> Very bad thing to do: first of all your clients won't be able to do things
> like bookmarks, in second I found these kind of 'trick' really uggly.
> Anyway, the only way to do so is to create a index page in the root
> directory of the web server with a frame that redirect to wathever
> page you want, the client will see the URL of the external frame. Note
> that this is quickly defeated if the client just show the internal
> frame. And no, there is no other way to do it. Otherwise your site
> won't work at all.
>
> Davide
>

If all he wants is that the short URL result in the long URL page, why
not a RewriteRule or even AliasMatch

AliasMatch ^/$ /<path-to-web-root>/webthing/weblook/login.htm

I'm confused. It appears that Davide and I am anwering very different
questions.

Jim

My boss does not like people having to type all that long www stuff
and having to remember it, he wants
to simplify, when they go to www.domain.com then have the server
display what it would have displayed if they typed that long one.

On Feb 8, 1:36 pm, Jim Hayter <see.reply...@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
> Davide Bianchi wrote:
> > On 2007-02-08, Johnny <lilgrasshop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I have something likehttp://www.domain.com/webthing/weblook/login.htm
> >> and I
> >> want to change all that to justhttp://www.domain.comand people would
>
> > Very bad thing to do: first of all your clients won't be able to do things
> > like bookmarks, in second I found these kind of 'trick' really uggly.
> > Anyway, the only way to do so is to create a index page in the root
> > directory of the web server with a frame that redirect to wathever
> > page you want, the client will see the URL of the external frame. Note
> > that this is quickly defeated if the client just show the internal
> > frame. And no, there is no other way to do it. Otherwise your site
> > won't work at all.
>
> > Davide
>
> If all he wants is that the short URL result in the long URL page, why
> not a RewriteRule or even AliasMatch
>
> AliasMatch ^/$ /<path-to-web-root>/webthing/weblook/login.htm
>
> I'm confused. It appears that Davide and I am anwering very different
> questions.
>
> Jim- Hide quoted text -
>
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