make www.foo.com/samp1 and www.foo.com/samp2 point to same file

[Wickersty]

Hi,

Could anyone advise me how to go about doing this?

I want to make it so that if a user uses any of the following URLs (as an example):

http://www.fakeurl.com/brazil

http://www.fakeurl.com/usa

http://www.fakeurl.com/mexico

they will all wind up at country_app.cfm, which will analyze the URL and do something like:

if /brazil, do this
if /usa, do this
if /mexico, do this

etc, etc...

Any ideas?

Jeff

 

[grtfercho]

implicitly what the server will see/use is

http://www.fakeurl.com/brazil/index.ext

http://www.fakeurl.com/usa/index.ext

http://www.fakeurl.com/mexico/index.ext

where .ext is whatever extension you server recognizes as default (hopefully .cfm).

on the page just do a redirect to the country_app.cfm with the CGI value for the URL path.

<cflocation url="country_app.cfm?path=#CGI.path_info#">

on country_app.cfm you could have something like...

<cfset originalPath=url.path>

<cfif listfind(originalPath,'brazil','/')>
YOU CAME FROM BRAZIL ......
</cfif>

That's just an idea, you obviously can find some other ways to optimize the code according to your needs.


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[wantstolearncfm]

the pages would have to exist then in the page have
<cflocation URL="

http://fakeurl.com/country_app.cfm"

token="yes">
Then you might be able to output the #cgi.HTTP_Referer#
and pick the /"referer" page out of it?
Im not sure i had a lot of trouble with REFERER so perhaps not your greatest idea
the best way is to make the page exist, then <cfset session.country_enter = thecountryspagename>
then have the cflocation, then in the country_app you could just use the #session.country_enter#
For example
<cfif IsDefined ("session.country_enter")>
process page as it has a country selected
<cfelse>
run selector
</cfif>
Your best bet though would be some sort of SSI, as this would normally throw an error, you could have a default error document that perhpas stored the variables ? im sure someone else will be able to elaborate what i am trying to get across!

http://google.com

http://support.microsoft.com/

CF Reference
The links of my knowledge

 

[Wickersty]

Yes, but what if I don't want all those directories to really exist? Meaning, if the folders /brazil and /usa and /mexico don't exist...

i want the server (or application.cfm if thats possible) to say... someone tried to go to

http://www.something.com/brazil,

and brazil doesn't exist, go instead to

http://www.something.com/country_app.cfm

and include the fact that /brazil was tried to access...

and, of course, in the user's location bar,

http://www.something.com/brazil

would still be present so they wouldn't be the wiser to the whole thing.


PS - thanks for the quick reply.

Jeff

 

[grtfercho]

That being the case...
you need to setup virtual folders on your web server and look for information on redirects.

I don't think is possible in CF without actually having the folders in the site.

The client request goes first to the web server then it gets passed to the app server (coldfusion), from there application.cfm starts kicking in.
Since you don't want to create the atual folder then your best bet would be to 'catch' the request at its earliest stage and that is at the web server level.



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