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  • 22-06-2006 10:38am
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    The Mighty Dubs
    Registered Users Posts: 224 ✭✭


    Hi,

    Was wondering is there a way of keeping your sites address in the address bar without exposing your filing system e.g.

    in the bar you will show http://www.xyz.com

    and when you navigate through the site that is all you will ever see, not e.g.
    http://www.xyz.com/aboutus.htm


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    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    There are a number of reasons why this is a horribly bad idea, but anyway...

    Either create the entire site using Flash, or use massive amounts of AJAX (ala Google).


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    Rollo Tamasi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭Rollo Tamasi


    or you could use a top/bottom frame but as Aidan said it's a bad idea. It doesn't really serve any purpose. Why do you want to do that?


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    #4
    The Mighty Dubs
    Registered Users Posts: 224 ✭✭The Mighty Dubs


    I was thinking of doing it because I have a site sitting another site and dont want this info to be viewed...


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    Serbian
    Registered Users Posts: 2,157 ✭✭✭Serbian


    Using Frames / Ajax / Flash to hide exactly what page you are on is not a good thing. A better option would be to use Mod Rewrite where you rewrite certain links to match your filesystem.

    For example, you could rewrite the link http://www.mysite.com/about/ to point to http://www.mysite.com/aboutus.htm. The benefit of this is people can still bookmark your pages and you are still not exposing your filesystem. Read more about ModRewrite.


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