I have seen my websites only shows path as below when you navigate to different webpage or items in that website while when i created the website i have to create a webpage for everything & it do show the path with file name like .php while other websites only show a path even though it navigate to new page.
This is known as URL routing. The developer has configured the webserver (or web application) to map specific URL paths to individual webserver pages (.php, .aspx, .mvc, or whatever). There are different ways of achieving this, depending on the webserver platform technology, but it is generally achieved by configuring a url route map of some kind. There are several advantages to organising a website url's in this way but mainly it makes URL's more consistent and easier to understand for users, and hides the details of the website's underlying implementation.
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we are trying to deploy a web page on a gcp project. The site is working but the we would like to change the auto generated url to something more user friendly.
The auto generated URL goes something like: dev-dot-project-numbers.uc.r.appspot.com/
Is there a way to customize or change that url?
thanks
Yes, you can. That URL looks like one for App Engine, which you can make available at your own address. You need to control your own domain (there are lots of services where you can get one). Then follow the instructions at https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python3/mapping-custom-domains to have your App Engine app respond at an address in your own domain.
I have deployed three mvc pages to my server as virtual directories using IIS (which there are plenty of tutorials for). I need one of the apps to run when the base URL is requested. So, for example, I have a Help app which can currently be accessed via help.contoso.com/help but I want that app to run when a user simply goes to help.contoso.com instead. I gather there is some sort of redirect option but can't find an example for this type of request anywhere (they're all way more complicated and don't address my simple need). I also think there should be a way to just host the app as the 'root' web 'page' but can't find anything around that either...
i have a wordpress website, i would like the client to view the website but i do not want to go through all the trouble of uploading the files and database to the server online, so i looked around and found some tunneling software that worked for me. However the issue i am now having is when the website is loaded from another PC, the css and images are not loaded because they all have their urls set to localhost. I read around and saw a lot of fancy words like url forwarding changing somethings in httpd-vhosts.conf etc. Unfortunately i do not know much abbout networking to understand all these concepts.
Basically what i would like to know is is there a way to make my images and css load on the clients pc even though the urls are set to locahost?
Or if anyone has another way i can show a client a website from my localhost.
I tried both pagekite and ngroks thanks in advance :)
You need to add one of the following plugins to Wordpress to force it to use relative URLs:
https://github.com/optimizamx/odt-relative-urls
http://wordpress.org/plugins/relative-url/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/root-relative-urls/
I guess it would be far better to host your site on a free web hosting service to show your client the website you created in one piece but make sure that the service provider provides everything that your website needs.
I have a website (example.com) that is a WordPress site hosted on WSYNTH.
I am redesigning the site, same domain (example.com) in ROR hosted on Heroku.
I have been told that for SEO purposes, once I point my domain to the ROR app on Heroku, all the old pages from the Wordpress site will go dark. (Makes sense.) But this would be very bad for SEO, since example.com will now have many URLs associated with it (created from the WP site) that are no longer valid.
I've heard that a 301 Redirect for those WordPress URLs will take care of this SEO issue. But how and where should I do this? Should I be installing a plugin in WordPress that will automate the redirects to the pages I want to send them to in the ROR/Heroku app?)
Also, is it possible to keep some of those old WordPress URLs live?
DNS
The 301 redirect is not the issue - you can use Wordpress itself to redirect to specific pages (using the simple 301 redirects plugin), or a better way will be to redirect your domain (with your DNS) to your Rails app, and then use the routes to handle any stray pages
The world of "SEO" is highly overrated - Google is just a system which
follows links. If it cannot find a page, it removes it from its
rankings; if it can find the page, it judges its on & off-site
optimization to determine its relevance.
This means the only thing you need to concern yourself with is ensuring you don't have any "holes" in your URLs. The redirections essentially mean you will tell Google to follow a link to the new page
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Redirections
The first thing you need to do is ensure you have the new pages you wish to show on your site. Preferrably, you'll want to make as many of them as identical to your previous URLS as you can.
Secondly, you can introduce redirects in your Rails routing system to give Google real pages when it visits the links for your Wordpress site:
#config/routes.rb
get '/your-old-post-name', to: redirect('/your-new-post-name')
This will mean you will have to create redirections for every wordpress post in your new Rails app - but should give Google the knowledge that those pages have changed, to which it will update
We are building a new web application that needs to run inside the SP Context for authentication. Unfortunately the person logged into the machine is not necessarily the person logged into SharePoint. I could not figure out a way to detect who was logged into SharePoint from an application outside of SharePoint. So, the solution is to deploy the application to the LAYOUTS folder within the 12 hive. This works great in that I can use a custom master page, go crazy with fancy user controls, AND be within the SP Context. I also locked down access to the page by detecting which web app the user was on so no one can access it from a different SP web app.
The problem is the URL. It is ugly. I want the url to be something like this: www.sitename.com/ instead of www.sitename.com/_layouts/appname/
I tried created creating a new web site within IIS that points directly to the app in the LAYOUTS folder. That failed because I was no longer within the SP Context.
I also tried an IIS redirect which worked, but the URL still switched over to the ugly URL.
Does anyone have any ideas for this?
My orginal problem was not being able to detect the currently logged in user for SharePoint outside of SP, so if you have a solution to that problem, that would be great too.
Your best option is to rewrite the URLs and HTML with a proxy. Apache with the mod_rewrite and mod_html_rewrite options are an option. However this kind of setup is not trivial.
You can use URL rewriting in IIS.