url question

He has: 688 posts

Joined: Feb 2001

Hi.

My host provides a way thru Plesk to set up webusers within my domain, that will be given the url "www.mydomain.com/~theirname". This is nice and will work but it's not exactly what I'm looking for.

I don't really care about webusers and I'm not allowing others have access to my site. All I want is to create a few 'extended urls ("/")' for some clients to easily promote their section of my site without confusion. The way described above will definitely work but in the interest of simplicity for the average joe, I want to know if there's a way to do this same thing but without the "~" (and obviously without ".html" either). Is there anyway to make "www.mydomain.com/theirname" work, even if it immediately transfers to an "index.html" page.

Confused

Thanks.

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She has: 5,586 posts

Joined: Feb 2001

You need to create sub folders within your domain and then in those folders you need to have the first page as index.html and the address will work as www.whatever.com/clientname without needing ~ or .html

Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....

He has: 688 posts

Joined: Feb 2001

Wow! Is it really that simple? Now I feel dumb. I've seen before where if you take off the file name in the address bar of some browsers (but not the folder name, it will display the file content of the server. I just assumed it was more complicated than that, but you're saying that if there is an "index.html" file within that folder, then it will load that file automatically (just like my main page) and not just display the folder contents? Wow that is easy! Thanks!!!! Sorry for asking such an easy one.

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