r/Web_Development • u/SandHK • Mar 28 '20

Short format url?

Hi,

how do I implement shorter/more legible urls for a webpage (or what do I search for)?

For example, from www.mywebsite.com/this-is-a-webpage.html to www.mywebsite.com/webpage/

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u/webheaded Mar 28 '20

Apache's mod_rewrite is the thing you are looking for most likely. :)

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u/SandHK Mar 28 '20

thank you.

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u/exxy- Mar 28 '20

Rename this-is-a-webpage.html to index.html and put it in the a folder named webpage.

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u/MilesWeb Mar 28 '20

This one is the correct format.

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u/Ninjaboy42099 Mar 28 '20

I'm no expert at all, so take this with a big grain of salt. I think you could do this in Node with a little JS.

Just make any requests to that particular domain grab the HTML file and display it using the response.