sub pages without extensions as in www.main.com/sub

[Lotruth]

How do some sites have sub pages without extensions as in

http://www.main.com/sub

as opposed to

http://www.main.com/sub.cfm

?

 

[DeZiner]

The page being called when referencing just a folder is index.htm, index.html, index.cfm, index.asp, etc. You can easily accomplish this by each page being contained in it's own folder and referencing just the folder in links.

<a href=&quot;folder/&quot;>Link</a> rather than <a href=&quot;folder/index.cfm&quot;>Link</a>

DeZiner
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[csteinhilber]

There are also web applications... Content Management Systems for example... that use executables/files without file extensions.

You can do this yourself, if you happen to have a /cgi-bin directory and your web server is set up correctly. The /cgi-bin directory is generally set up to allow a web server to execute the scripts within. So if you produce a CGI or PERL script and don't name it with a file extension... for example &quot;showmessage&quot; rather than &quot;showmessage.cgi&quot; or &quot;showmessage.pl&quot;... then you can get the script to run by simply browsing to

http://www.main.com/cgi-bin/showmessage

Now suppose that a directory other than cgi-bin was set up the same way. As I said, this is a common way to develop a content management system. Say it sits under a directory off of webroot called &quot;content&quot;, and simply contains a C++ app named &quot;page&quot;.

You'd be able to use URLs such as:

http://www.main.com/content/page?id=1234&catalog=shoes&store=5678

-Carl