RE: Web page help please

["Alex Monaghan" <ha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Often people will use a CMS (Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal and such like),
these
will usually have extensions to give you more control over URL's which will
give you the effect you want.

Assuming you are using an Apache based server you can use the rewrite
module
which is usually configured per site in .htaccess should you wish to
manually rewrite URL's.

Unless it is just a few pages, then a CMS is often the easiest option. I
use
mostly Drupal and the rewrite module allows you to specify an complete
alternative path for each content item you create as an extra box in the
page editor.


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Tim Hawes
Sent: 06 January 2011 19:21
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Web page help please

Hi all,

I have googled this but I'm not quite sure what the search terms should be.
What I want is for a user to be able to type (for e.g.)
www.mywebsite.co.uk/links and the webserver to return the
www.mywebsite.co.uk/links.htm page, etc. Same thing also for
"sales" or
"contactus" pages, etc. So the user doesn't need to know the
precise name
and extension of the page itself.

How is it done, or what is it's proper name so that I can research it
myself?

Many thanks,

Tim.


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