Suzanne — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 01:33:31 +0000

usedcars.com/ford/ <-- the forward bracket at the end tells the server this is a directory, not a file.

If you have no idea what you're doing, heh, you might want to learn a bit about file structures first.

/ is root
/directory/ is the root of that directory

BOTH would have different index.html files (or .php or .jsp et cetera, but both would have unique index files).

Pop us an url and we can probably track where you're going awry.

thanks

webster — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 00:45:17 +0000

Thanks for the advice, I am using a web building program and when I name the page www usedcars.com/ford for example my web building program adds more stuff to the web address so that when I type in www usedcars.com/ford into the address bar it fails to locate the page.

p.s. I have no idea what I'm doing.

ShaneS — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 18:55:49 +0000

yeah, and if your server has apache's mod_rewrite, that could actually be a script query.

IE: domain.com/car.php?id=234

could eb something like domain.com/car/234

and mod rewrite makes it the proper query, the browser, visitor, and search engine spiders are none the wiser and more engines then just google can them spider your "Dynamic" content.

JeevesBond — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 12:05:47 +0000

Setting up subdomains would be a pain, the method Suzanne mentioned is the best way to do it - far more manageable.

druagord — Tue, 05 Aug 2003 22:32:55 +0000

Yes that's right i got used to have my own server

ShaneS — Tue, 05 Aug 2003 21:01:04 +0000

Not sure if he has direct server access like that. He might need to see if his host will do it if the server is not his own.

druagord — Tue, 05 Aug 2003 12:33:59 +0000

reply on apache you can configure *.yourdomain.com in bind too. so anything.yourdomain.com will work then you can use php to display a page corresponding to what was typed by checking the variable $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']

Suzanne — Tue, 05 Aug 2003 01:39:02 +0000

Is there a problem with having a directory for each car? i.e. usedcars.com/thiscar/ where that directory only contains the car page?

Alternatively, if you get a nice host offering unlimited subdomains, you could have thiscar.usedcars.com for each car.

I would likely choose the former because you can build on the domain name brand and use that reputation as leverage for future specific used cars that you'd sell.