[thelist] What in the world....
Casey Crookston
casey.crookston at imibevcore.com
Fri Apr 19 09:40:01 CDT 2002
Okay, I'm doing a real simple site for a friend... for free. I've got
it set up in a very simple template style:
<!-- insert header -->
<!-- Insert content based on page -->
<!-- Insert footer -->
The headers and footers are the same across all pages. Within the
header is the navigation, and there are a grand total of 4 links. (Like
I said, simple site.) The links look like this: <a
href="default.asp?page=about"> etc etc. It works just great on my
machine at home, but when I uploaded to my hosting company last night,
the weirdest thing happens. Check it out:
<<Keep in mind that the graphical work is NOT mine, thank you very
much... >>
www.thecrookstons.com/rodney
The links do not come across as
http://www.thecrookstons.com/default.asp?page=about, but instead they
show up as http://www.thecrookstons.com/about.asp.
What the FREAK is that about? I beat my head against my desk for almost
two hours last night. Holy Frights. This was supposed to be a brain
dead simple project.
This is the entire code for the default page:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
<% Dim page
page=request.querystring("page")
if page="" then page = "home" %>
<!-- #include file="header.asp"-->
<% select case page
case "home" %>
<!-- #include file="home.asp"-->
<% case "about" %>
<!-- #include file="about.asp"-->
<% case "contact" %>
<!-- #include file="contact.asp"-->
<% case "order" %>
<!-- #include file="order.asp"-->
<% case "regions" %>
<!-- #include file="regions.asp"-->
<% end select %>
<!-- #include file="footer.asp"-->
----------------------------------------------------------------
In the header.asp file, there are a series of links that look like this
<a href="default.asp?page=about">graphic</a>
<a href="default.asp?page=regions">graphic</a>
<a href="default.asp?page=contact">graphic</a>
Etc....
Each of the content pages, about.asp, contact.asp, regions.asp, etc is
just simple HTML. Nothing dynamic. But like I say, when I upload the
site, these links show up as "about.asp" rather than
"default.asp?page=about"
HOW is this possible? How could something so simple pull such a twisted
little trick? Any idea?
Casey
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