Shortening URLs

ChunkyBustout

Hello all,

I wanted to know if there is an easy way to do this. I'm looking to change the following:

from http://www.chunkybustout.com/modules/forum/index.php?page1

to http://www.chunkybustout.com/forum

Is this even possible?

n0obie4life

Well, the link is a 404..

ChunkyBustout

uh... that was just an example. Laughing

n0obie4life

Is it a nuke page?

Post nuke, whatever nuke.

[edit]

.htaccess

Rewriteengine ON

and all that will work. But you have to find it out yourself Smile

ChunkyBustout

I'm using a CMS package called CMS Made Simple.

I've located the

n0obie4life

Err. To do it you have to use the rewrite engine. But I'm not sure what are the stuff you should put Smile

ChunkyBustout

Ok. How do you access the rewrite engine?

gonzo

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=apache+rewrite

TheGeek

the other thing that you can do if your server supports it is make a subdomain. If you do that, you could specify the path like, www.forums.yoursite.com or something like that. If not then i dont know what to tell you.

ChunkyBustout

ocalhoun

you just need to have a /forum directory in public_html, that will shorten it some (good luck re-directing all your links).

ChunkyBustout

Thanks ocalhoun but my forum is a module of the cms software I'm using so it doesn't have it's own directory. I have only to access it through it's url (which I like).

Kyle Katarn

You could make the /forum folder, and make a index.html file with a meta_refresh of 0, and point it towards your other URL.

bananaphone

Just change the folder the HTML files are saved in - this will change the folder. You can also try a subdomain.

Helios

you can also use the redirection options within your cPanel..

Daniel15

Put this in a .htaccess file: