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Custom URL

Jan 23rd, 2006

Hi

Is anyone able to please help me achieve custom urls for my profile based website.

I want to provide users with their own domain for example:
www.myprofilewebsite.com/username

Is this a server side scripting issue or is there a better? or easier way around this?

Many thanks

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Re: Custom URL

Mar 8th, 2006

Assuming you are running a Linux based server, you will need to use something called mod_rewrite. By adding a couple of lines in an .htaccess file you upload into the directory, you could essentially rewrite URLs. For example, you can change www.site.com/profile.php?username=dani to www.site.com/dani/

Check our Apache forum for more information about how to accomplish this