URL linking to file

emile

Hi!

I don't know if this is only possible by making changes on the server. How do you link a URL to a specific file on my host by only putting in the path to the folder in the address bar and not the file name at the end like http://www.myhost/register

Hope you can help me.
😉

shaitan

You cant is the simple answer. If you cant specify the full path to a file how do you expect to be able to access it? Or have i missed totally wot you are saying 🙂

Although you can do it by editing the webserver config for the likes of say index documents, so rather than loading index.html you can specify it to use index.php instead, is this wot you mean?

Shaitan

raymie

actually the above poster is not quite correct.

On the site http://phpfaq.info a similar scheme is in place to what I think you may be asking for.

Any requests for pages such as http://phpfaq.info/local/nn (where nn is anything, but for this site a number) will be directed to a script which dynamically creates the page, there is no actual page for any of the links.

This is achieved in apache via the location directive where you can the webserver that for requests fitting a certain format a specific script should be used instead.

shaitan

Hi Raymie,

You are spot on mate, but I was talking about without altering the config of the server itself, or without using .htaccess files for apache or example.

Shaitan

emile

Perfect!
Thanks, I knew the question whould sound stupid, but I got the answer I was looking for.
Emile