Some sort of URL rewriting ...

Question

Hi all  I am workin on a website say www.MyWebsite.com which is similar to a b2b portal . Now here we ve a number of companies and to each company we are providing a homepage which will be a dynamic page for all the comapnies. Now this homepage will be loaded according to the company id passed through querystring or by some other means. Now what i want is that i don'nt want to show the querystring value in the url plus I want to let the company access this page by there company name ... for example ... for infosys : the url shoud be www.MyWebsite.com/infosys for abc : www.MyWebsite.com/abc something like this in http://www.seekandsource.com : http://snsvo9.seekandsource.com/kebabish/ i think i ve to do URL rewriting .. bt i m nt getting hw to do ... Can anyone help me .... tnx & Regards s_raj0205

john ginzo · Answer

when you use url rewriting the url the user sees can be anything you want. So in your example the user can type: www.MyWebsite.com/Infosys Then in the Request event in your global.asa you can look at the url realize he is looking for infosys and then rewrite the url to www.mywebsite.com/company.aspx?id=1 the user's url in the address bar stays the same even though you are serving them the one with the parameter John Ginzo GinzoTech Solutions www.ginzotech.com

suraj rai · Answer

Hi John  Tnx for d reply ... I think the way you ve done .. still I need to call the page like this if I ve understand ur code . For example .. If the page is : www.MyWebSite.com/Company.aspx?pageid=1 Then atmost in the url Company.aspx will be visible .. rite ... But wat I want is that ... The company pages has to be call with a parameter depending on the company but the url should still display tat perticular company name... like if I need the details of Infosys ..then url whoud display www.MyWebsite.com/Infosys and in reality the displayed page will be www.MyWebSite.com/Company.aspx?pageid=1 if Infosys's company id is 1 . MOreover the user should be able to display the page by typing www.MyWebsite.com/Infosys in the address bar . I just want to know .. is that posible .. if U can give me sum suggesstion wud be highly appreciated. Tnx & Regards s_raj0205

john ginzo · Answer

This is the model I have used in the past which seems to work well.... http://www.stardeveloper.com/articles/display.html?article=2004022801&page=1 There are also two other ways to do it. You could search the web for examples of writing an ISAPI redirection filter but that is a little more diffiult or there is a way in .NET to do the same using httphandlers. However the code above is currently working on a couple of large websites I have done with no issues. John Ginzo GinzoTech Solutions www.ginzotech.com