Frienldy URLs

For an application I design I need to convert an url like http://www.mypage.com/an_item to be redirected to an asp page. That is, if someone is typing the url http://www.mypage.com/an_item, instead of a 404, to be redirected to http://www.mypage.com/the_page_Im_actualy_looking_for.as p. I have no clues what "an item" might be, but it exists and it is grabbed from a database. The closest analogy is with an online store, where if someone is typing www.mystore.com/laps it would be redirected to a page like http://www.mypage.com/item_family.asp?item=lamps, which grabs and display all the items thar are listed in this category.

You might try something like this.... Using this, you can do just about anything you want using a 404 page.



URL = Request.ServerVariables("QUERY_STRING")
URLname = Request.ServerVariables("QUERY_STRING")
if instr(1,URL,"404;http://") > 0 then
    'Error Page True
    ErrorPage = true
    URL = replace(replace(URL,"404;http://",""),"_"," ")
    if not mid(URL,len(URL)-1) = "/" then
        URL = URL + "/"
    end if
    URLPart = split(URL,"/")
    if ubound(URLPart) > 1 then
        vdir = lcase(URLPart(1))
    end if
    
end if   


IF left(lcase(vdir),5) = "products" THEN

    response.status = "200 OK"
    productID = replace(vdir, "products", "")
    response.redirect("wherever you want to redirect")

'////////////////////////////////////// You could also do a moved permenantly
'Response.Status="301 moved Permanently"
'Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.example.com/"
'//////////////////////////////////////

ELSE
    %><!--#include file="getTheProductsFromTheDB.asp" --><%
END IF



Edited by Greyth - 12 January 2005 at 8:00pm