How to hide the URL (or URL masking)

[EZStudio04]

Hi All,
Does anyone know how to hide the URL in the address bar. I saw some site looks like this:
http://www.site.com/contact
When I try to figure out which page this redirect to, I couldn't find out.
Here is a good example:

http://www.opensourcecu.com/
Contact Page: http://www.opensourcecu.com/contact
About Page: http://www.opensourcecu.com/pages/about

Thanks for any help!

[stpaz]

you dont need to add file name if you are requesting the default document.

e,g www.mysite.com/index.cfm can be reached with www.mysite.com

so.

www.mysite.com/contact/index.cfm can be reached with www.mysite.com/contact/

[EZStudio04]

Thank you for you apply, stpza.
but what I want is something like this,
http://www.opensourcecu.com/pages/about
not
http://www.opensourcecu.com/pages/about/

anybody has better idea?
thanks!

[benbest]

When using the URL you won't need the trailing /

So
http://www.opensourcecu.com/pages/about

will provided index.cfm is set up as a default document display

http://www.opensourcecu.com/pages/about/index.cfm

Hope this helps

Ben

[539E]

quote:

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Originally posted by: benbest
When using the URL you won't need the trailing /

So
http://www.opensourcecu.com/pages/about

will provided index.cfm is set up as a default document display

http://www.opensourcecu.com/pages/about/index.cfm

Hope this helps

Ben

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Maybe he's asking... /pages/ is the directory ; and about or contact is just a page ...not a new directory, therefore, about/index.cfm is not the case here.

I've seen blogs create things like that, which looks like a directory & don't actually exist....but, I personally don't know how it's done.

[boughtonp]

What server are you using?

If it's Apache, use mod_rewrite.

If it's IIS, read this:
http://www.petefreitag.com/item/286.cfm

If you don't have the ability to set these up on your server, you can achieve a similar effect by using www.domain.com/index.cfm/about
And then in index.cfm (or better, application.cfm) have something similar to this: