Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 02/27/06 02:44

RedGalaxy UK wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I currently have a website and would like to be able to give my members
> an alias to access their profile. At the moment, people have to go to
> something like www.domain.com/viewmember.php?id=3456, which isn't
> practical unless it's through clicking links.
>
> I'd like to be able to give my members the ability to use something
> like www.domain.com/myname, which would then forward to the correct
> page. The problem I can see is that the server thinks myname is
> actually a folder and returns a 404 error.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>

If you're using Apache, you can use mod_rewrite to do this. Check one
of the Apache newsgroups like alt.apache.configuration.

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