Re: FN-FORUM: Disguising the path of a page

date posted 3rd March 2008 16:41

Anne,

> Dear all
>
> I have a site for a local business group:
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> http://www.actonbusinessforum.net/
>
> linked to a forum that my partner has created
>
> http://forums.redmason.net/ActonBusinessForum/ (link on left hand
> column)
>

If you have reasonable access to the server running
www.actonbusinessforum.net, then the best way might be to use a rewrite
rule. This would turn all the requests for:

http://www.actonbusinessforum.net/forum/

into requests to:

http://forums.redmason.net/ActonBusinessForum/

in a way that is transparent to the user.

If this is an Apache server, you want mod_rewrite for this.
The rule would look something like:

RewriteRule ^/forum/(.*)
http://forums.redmason.net/ActonBusinessForum//$1 [P]

(that's supposed to be all one one line). There may be something on your
server control panel to set these.

There will be an equivalent for IIS, I'm sure.

Graham
> The site and the forum are hosted separately and they have requested
> that it appears they are in the same place, ie the path does not
> contain redmason etc.
>
> I have experimented by putting the forum in a single frameset frame
>
> http://www.actonbusinessforum.net/forum
>
> which looks OK, if archaic and does the trick.
>
> Question is:
>
> 1.Is there any problem doing it this way, browsers, scrolling etc
> etc, anything at all?
> 2. Is there a way of doing this in CSS instead of frames?
>
> Greatly appreciate any advice on this.
>
> I am on the digest.
>
> Thanks to anyone who takes the time to have a look. I am on the digest.
>
> Annie
>
> PS. I also posted this to another list yesterday but no response.
>
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> Anne Pennington
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> http://www.digitalplot.co.uk
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