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how can I make an URL alias for my web page ?

Answer 1

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In online, use .htaccess file for change the folder path.

Karthik 2010-05-31 07:22:54

sorry for ignorance, what do you mean for "In online", you mean I can do it with an online running website ?

Patrick 2010-05-31 07:45:03

by the way, I'm already using htaccess (redirect or rewrite) but I cannot hide the path from url

Patrick 2010-05-31 09:06:49

Answer 2

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Can you create files on root?

Symbolic link

You could create a symbolink link on your root directory:

ln -s /folder/ index.php

Rui Carneiro 2010-05-31 07:52:06

is this solution hiding "drupal/" from the url as well ? or just forwarding ?

Patrick 2010-05-31 08:28:28

@Patrick You are right, my solutions were just forwarding. I edited my original post in order to hide your `folder`

Rui Carneiro 2010-05-31 08:37:34

thanks, uhm I get Internal Server Error when I try to use the ln command. If I use forward or rewrite rules it works instead.. but I need to hide the "folder/"

Patrick 2010-05-31 08:45:00

Also, I dunno if this is related, when I add Options +FollowSymLinks I get Internal Server Error

Patrick 2010-05-31 08:45:20

Answer 3

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make .htaccess file, and put this:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php$ http://www.server.com/folder/$1.php [nc]

everytime you access www.server.com/index.php will be redirected to www.server.com/folder/index.php

Jeaffrey Gilbert 2010-05-31 08:50:35

if I add the line "Options +FollowSymlinks" I get an Internal Server Error. The Rewrite rules perfectly works without that line, however the "folder/" string is not hided from the url...

Patrick 2010-05-31 08:51:43

Do you mean if you access folder/a.php it will hide 'folder/' string automatically in address bar? If yes, you can't do that because of security reason. Put familiar link in your anchor, and translate/redirect it by htaccess. The rest is handled by your page validation.

Jeaffrey Gilbert 2010-05-31 09:36:24

I got 50% of your answer. Then I lost you: "Put familiar link in your anchor" ? "The rest is handled by your page validation" ?

Patrick 2010-05-31 09:41:01

Answer 4

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if you have your website installed on a server you can overlay it with a specific domain...

like www.example.com leads to www.server.com/folder/

In many backends it is an option to do this or even to say that www.server.com/folder/ is root directory

poeschlorn 2010-05-31 09:07:59

so, I can do it only in the backend settings

Patrick 2010-05-31 09:10:39

as far as I know, yes

poeschlorn 2010-05-31 11:02:45

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