[thelist] making friendly urls
rudy
r937 at interlog.com
Sun Aug 18 21:26:01 CDT 2002
> Plus, now, I have ONE article page that displays EVERY article.
> I don't want to end up static article pages, that defeats the purpose
> of a templated site driven by a DB.
tom, i agree completely
i have the same structure -- one article page for all articles
for example, http://rudy.ca/archive.cfm?archive=lookupinthesky
the archive page takes the url string, and pulls that article out of the
database
however, i have also designated the article page as my custom 404 page
now, the key to getting "search engine friendly urls" to work is that the
custom 404 page must know the file name of the requested file
so if someone requests http://rudy.ca/lookupinthesky.html, the archive page
gets called because that file doesn't exist!! the archive page takes the
filename, does a lookup in the database, displays the article if it exists,
and if it doesn't, only then does the archive page issue the "oops" (404)
message
helps?
rudy
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