A Quick (and hopefully simple) web design question

[John Hillage]

Hi guys -

I use Front Page to knock together my web pages and when I save and upload a page it always ends in .html

For example:

mastermonthlyresell.com/offer.html

I want to shorten this url to:

mastermonthlyresell.com/offer

without the html bit added as I am sending some direct mail and want the url to be as simple as possible.

Can someone tell me how to do this in Front Page or Mozilla Composer as I use both.

Thanks

John

[joblythe]

John

Simply rename your offer.html to index.html (in the /offer directory)

[John Hillage]

Thanks for the reply but that will make it my home page will it not? - and it cannot be my home page it needs to be unique to that.

[ThomM]

John that same question came up not to long ago here.
Try doing a search on the forum or Google and I'm pretty sure you will find it.
If I remember right it had to do with the htaccess file.

[joblythe]

If your homepage is on mastermonthlyresell.com/offer - then it will - but is it not mastermonthlyresell.com ?

[I.M.Retired]

Create a folder (directory) called offer. In that folder place the offer message and title it index.

The path will then be yourdomain.com/offer/index.html

Your main page will still open to yourdomain.com/index

When you create a link to the offer, link to yourdomain.com/offer/index.html and it should open as yourdomain.com/offer

[joblythe]

Originally Posted by Dekko

The path will then be yourdomain.com/offer/index.html

You do not need the index.html at the end - this only need yourdomain.com/offer - which is what I suggested earlier.

[John Hillage]

OK - I am missing something here clearly. Can anyone tell me exactly how I create this folder. I normally make my web pages in Front Page then upload them via my ftp straight into my public html folder.

[I.M.Retired]

Hi Jo: Well I'll be dipped - I never knew that. Going off to try it now!

John: Can you create a new folder via your ftp program? If so, you just put it in the html_public folder. There should be an add, or create function that allows you to do this when you are in your ftp program.

If not, access your control panel and create it in there. Then when you upload your files you upload into that folder rather than into the root directory.

[KimW]

For those of you telling him to make a new folder...that would be counterproductive to his orginal post: "I want to shorten this url "
so yes,making anew folder should drop the html part, but it wont shorten the url..

[Gene Pimentel]

John, to clarify, as long as the index.html is in it's own folder, it becomes the default file for THAT folder only. It will not affect the index.html on your main page. You can have as many index.html files as you have folders.

mastermonthlyresell.com/offer1/index.html
mastermonthlyresell.com/offer2/index.html
mastermonthlyresell.com/offer3/index.html
etc.

You would only have to type in:

mastermonthlyresell.com/offer1
mastermonthlyresell.com/offer2
mastermonthlyresell.com/offer3
etc.

[joblythe]

John

Simply use your ftp program to create a folder named "offer" - then upload your "offer.html" file there - then rename to "index.html"

Now by typing the url "mastermonthlyresell.com/offer" you have it sorted!!

Sorry - I should have explained this a bit better - sooner!

[joblythe]

Originally Posted by KimW

For those of you telling him to make a new folder...that would be counterproductive to his orginal post: "I want to shorten this url "
so yes,making anew folder should drop the html part, but it wont shorten the url..

Kim

Have another look at John's first post.

He is looking to type his main url with "/OFFER" tagged on the end.

Thanks

[Austin Delaney]

Hi John;

Create a directory called /offer and put the index.html page in there

It will be your 'home' page for that directory

i.e.

mastermonthlyresell.com/offer/index.html

is the same as

mastermonthlyresell.com/offer

Hope this helps,
Austin.

[joblythe]

Originally Posted by Gene Pimentel

John, to clarify, as long as the index.html is in it's own folder, it becomes the default file for THAT folder only. It will not affect the index.html on your main page. You can have as many index.html files as you have folders.

mastermonthlyresell.com/offer1/index.html
mastermonthlyresell.com/offer2/index.html
mastermonthlyresell.com/offer3/index.html
etc.

You would only have to type in:

mastermonthlyresell.com/offer1
mastermonthlyresell.com/offer2
mastermonthlyresell.com/offer3
etc.

Thanks Gene - you are much more eloquent than I am!!

Good explanation!

[KimW]

Originally Posted by joblythe

Kim

Have another look at John's first post.

He is looking to type his main url with "/OFFER" tagged on the end.

Thanks

Yes I saw that, we just got different meanings froom the same words. He is not wanting to shorten the url, he is wanting the the html to not show up.

[John Hillage]

Thanks Jo that explanation worked out fine I got it working. Thanks again for all who were happy to help. Have a great day Saturday. John

[joblythe]

You are welcome John.