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Unsightly file extension

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Topic: Unsightly file extension

Posted By: padoxky
Subject: Unsightly file extension
Date Posted: 30 March 2005 at 8:20am

Hi, Help some help here

Here is it, displaying file extension like .asp or .aspx in website how can i hide the file extension.

Just like this http://www.domainname.com/user"

instead of http://www.domainname.com/user.asp - http://www.domainname.com/user.asp

tell me how to do that also how to implement it on my webpage

padoxky.

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 30 March 2005 at 12:05pm

Usally if you see a URL without a file extension it is a link to a folder, then the web server picks up the default page.

If you have access to the server you can setup IIS to use different file extensions, eg. you could tell the web server to process .hhh as .asp pages.

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Posted By: padoxky
Date Posted: 30 March 2005 at 12:38pm

thanks,

But can my webhosting provider do that for me if i ask them to. Cox i need for hacker free.

Also, if there's anyother way to used script solve it.

I appreciate that.

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Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 30 March 2005 at 12:44pm

if you are in a shared enviroment then you wont be able to do as -boRg- said and change the extentions.

even in a VPS enviromnent you may not be able to do so

you could make the site using lots of folders is one way.

also you cold have one page that is the site and use a ID value within each link thats in the querystring that gets certain details so ID=0 could be default page ID=1 could be about us page.

Posted By: padoxky
Date Posted: 30 March 2005 at 12:55pm

But there's other website that keep there url just like this http://www.domainname.com/user - www.domainname.com/user in every pages u click you can't no the file extension.

I just need it to fix in mine own just tell me how.

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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 30 March 2005 at 1:10pm

Any hacker who knows his stuff isn't going to be stopped by hiding page extensions.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 30 March 2005 at 1:45pm

All that happening with that URL is that you are going to a folder called 'user', the extension won't be hidden. Infact the extension is .html, but as other pages have querystrings I imagine that they have set the server up to parse .html pages as .php pages.

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