Re: Web page help please

[Tim Hawes <timsyahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for all the replies, some form of "re-writing" seems
to be the
ticket.
As to why, well it is just for a few pages and some of them I don't want to
be public-facing - nothing secret, just links & info for my benefit
rather
than anyone else's.

Thanks again,

Tim.


On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Alex Monaghan <ha@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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