I don't even really know how to ask this question or what this would be called or if it's even possible. I've tried searching but I guess I just can't word the question properly.
What I'm trying to do is have a URL, say mydomain.com/blog/2012/12, but without the folder structure on my server public_html/blog/2012/12/index.php
Well, public_html/blog/index.php exists, but for the rest, I would like when visitors go to the page mydomain.com/blog/2012/12, for the web site to load an index.php file from somewhere else on the server, and show blog archives for December 2012 without a 404 page coming up because that folder doesn't actually exist.
ie, I don't want to have to create folders for every year/month.
Is this possible? I'm sure it's possible, I just can't figure out how to search for this particular topic.
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I have a specific requirement and am looking for suggestions on the best possible way to achieve that. I would start by apologizing if I sound too naïve. What I am trying to achieve in here is:
A) I have a parent site, say, www.abc.com.
B) I am planning to enable multisite option for it. This parent site has a area map with a number of location images overlayed. All of these images, when clicked, should lead to a subsite.
C) This subsite (has already been coded) is totally dynamic and every single information being displayed on it is being extracted from the database. It uses a session variable, which for now has been hard-coded at the very beginning of the header. This variable also decides on which database to refer to. So it will display information for different locations, based on the location selected on the parent site. Even the URL should appear per that. Say if Location ‘A’ was clicked on parent-site then the session variable needs to set to ‘LocA’ on the sub-site and the URL should be something like www.abc.com/LocA and if the Location ‘B’ was clicked then the session variable should be set to ‘LocB’ and the URL should appear as www.abc.com/LocB etc.. Trying to figure out how to achieve this. [It will have one front-end for all the locations but different databases for each location.]
I am an entrepreneur with some programming experience from my past (but none related to website designing). Because of the help from all you geniuses and the code samples lying around, I was able to code the parent site and the sub-site (using html, php, js, css ). Now the trouble is how to put it all together and make it work in correlation. Though it will still be a week or two before I get to try it but I am trying to gather insights so that I am ready by the time I reach there. Any help will be deeply appreciated.
I think the fundamental thing to understand before you get deeper is what a URL is. A URL is not part of the content that you display to the user; nor is it the name of a file on your server. A URL is the identifier the user sends your server, which your server can use to decide what content to serve. The existence of "sub-sites", and "databases", and even "files" is completely invisible to the end user, and you can arrange them however you like; you just need to tell the server how to respond to different URLs.
While it is possible to have the same URL serve different content to different users, based on cookies or other means of identifying a user, having entire sites "hidden" behind such conditions is generally a bad idea: it means users can't bookmark that content, or share it with others; and it probably means it won't show up in search results, which need a URL to link to.
When you don't want to map URLs directly to files and folders, the common approach involves two things:
Rewrite rules, which essentially say "when the user requests URL x, pretend they requested URL y instead".
Server-side code that acts as a "front controller", looking at the (rewritten) URL that was requested, and deciding what content to serve.
As a simple example:
The user requests /abc/holidays/spain
An Apache server is configured with RewriteRule /(...)/holidays/(.*) /show-holidays.php?site=$1&destination=$2 so expands it to /show-holidays.php?site=abc&destination=spain
The show-holidays.php script looks at the parameter $_GET['site'] and loads the configuration for sub-site "abc"
It then looks at $_GET['destination'] and loads the appropriate content
The output of the PHP script is sent back to the user
If the user requests /def/holidays/portugal, they will get different content, but the same PHP script will generate it
Both the rewrite rules and the server-side script can be as simple or as complex as you like - some sites have a single PHP script which accepts all responses, looks at the real URL that was requested, and decides what to do; others have a long list of mappings from URLs to specific PHP scripts.
I need to locate the file that manages the main page of my online store developed with Magento (which would be the index.html). I just need to change a link, and I've used Firebug shows that the file i need to edit is "misitioweb.com" (the main page) but the document itself does not appear in the ftp. The initial page consists of a bunch of XML, and PHP's PHTML. If someone wants to see the address page is http://peluches-cel.com and only want to change the destination URL of the link "Peluche del mes". I have used the help of Magento to show "Help template route" and I downloaded the 4 files that are more likely to manage that area of the page, but I can not find the part where specify the destination URL of the link. I have always worked with HTML or PHP separately (I have little experience with PHP) and I find it very difficult to understand how Magento builds each website. If someone could give me a little hint on how to achieve change that link would you do me very happy, it took a long time trying it on my own and looking online but can not find how to do any guestbook or forum that explains how to work well with Magento, in my language, there are hardly any documentation on Magento, so I decided to try my luck in this forum and I've read on several pages that involves many professionals in the e-commerce. Thanks in advance to all who devote their time to read my question.
I don't really understand what you want.
But if you want to change the base URL, you can do that by accessing database via phpMyAdmin, find the table core_config_data and change the URL in the web/unsecure/base_url and web/secure/base_url to what you want.
Not the url of the page, but the url of a link. Try clicking on "Peluche del mes" and see what comes out, gives access to http://www.peluches-cel.com/peluche-del-mes, I want access to http://www.peluches-cel.com/oso-tiziano-2col-40cm directly. The problem is NOT EXISTS peluches-cel.com/oso-tiziano-2col-40cm page on FTP, to be done in PHP there are different functions that are responsible for creating it at the time of the request I need to change the link to "Peluche del mes", if you see with firebug or any other source code analyzer, the source code of the page you will see that line 146 is managed that link, but I can not directly access the code ¿do you understand me? through an ftp client no such file or html as php magento works with the model view controller, that's my problem. Thank you again.
I am working on a website where I need to use the login form to log into a different site and then bring the member's area from that site over to the one I am building.
I have access to both sites and can make changes on either one. I would incorporate the code from the old one directly but it is in ASP and I'm working with PHP.
Any ideas? The purpose would be for someone to login to the site through site A (no problem) then get the information from site B (no problem) and present it in site A (no problem if I use cURL to get the site and break it up then display it on the new one). The issue I get into is the links that are on the new site and gathered from the old site will still point to links on the old site. Maybe there is a way to dynamically generate those pages on the new site somehow? Or am I going about it all the wrong way?
It's essentially a proxy. You need to parse and rebuild the links in the html source code received from site B. There are no functions available for this, but there are numerous open-source proxy scripts you can take code from.
Glype should be open-source (site appears to be broken now unfortunately).
https://www.glype.com/
You need to split the links to change them depending on where do they point.
Links to css/js should be rewritten to point to the real url (note that ajax content won't work, because you can't do an ajax request to another website)
Absolute links to the real website should be changed to relative
Relative links should point at your website (ex. $new_url = '/viewpage/?page=' . urlencode($url);)
Absolute links to other domains (not the old website that you proxy) should be dealt somehow, think about what do you want to do with them exactly.
I am creating an application in PHP.
One thing I want to do is make it so that if a user types in www.example.com/app/rrr.php where app is the main directory of my application and rrr.php does not exist, that either the program does not go anywhere or use ErrorDocuments in .htaccess to redirect back to the previous page. Thus far the only way I have been able to get this is to add this in my .htaccess:
ErrorDocument 404 C:\Users\Chris\Desktop\wamp\www\Master\errorcode.php
When I try to go to a page that does not exist (by typing in the address area), the program does not attempt to go to it. On a page that does exist (if I type in a php file that I have made) the program advances normally. My problem is that I doubt this will work for users who install it themselves, and I was wondering if anyone had ideas as to how to make this work for everyone.
Couln't understand your question fully, but what I think is,
You should direct user to 404 page where you will check if there is any referer then give a link along with 404 page something like You might want to go back, and if there is no referer just show 404 page.
I have a problem.
I ma moving a system from one server to another and I came across a peculiar problem. There are some pages placed in a subfolder like these:
xttp://test.domain.com/admin/oders.php
xttp://test.domain.com/admin/users.php
xttp://test.domain.com/admin/whatever.php
Now, when I move around the pages, via some simple menu with links I get most of the times correct hits. But from time to time I end up on say:
xttp://test.domain.com/admin/admin/oders.php - which obviously causes 404
When I go back to previous page and press the link again it again works all right. Also when I hover over the links they always show proper paths regardless of whether I am going to get 404 or not. All links are dynamically generated by the scripts but they work perfectly on old server and as I say to a naked eye it all looks OK, right until I press the link.
Anyone has an idea where to look for a bug or which tool to use to see what is happening when I press the link? URL mod rewrite? Domain configuration? I am at a loss.
It sounds like the scripts are getting confused between
[xttp://test.domain.com]/admin/file.php
admin/file.php
file.php
Without seeing how the URLs are generated it's impossible to say how this is happening.