Flip-flopping URL address

Question

Hello Experts.
I recently read about how to go about changing the URL
address of a page so that it is somewhat reversed; where the domain
name is after a sub directory name. The effect, for my purposes,
would be to have the site address with a customers name first (the
customer's name is the name of a sub-folder in the root folder),
and then the domain name. The effect is a more personalized URL.
EXAMPLE:
Current URL -
http://verycoolsite.com/dairyqueen
(opens the index page from the sub-folder, dairyqueen)
Desired URL -
http://dairyqueen.verycoolsite.com
(same site index page is opened, but more personalized effect)
This is often seen in blog URL's (davedog.blogger.com).
So, how is this done? Is it done from the ISP? Or is there
code to add to the html that will do this?
Any help appreciated.
r

Answer 1

On 16 Aug 2007 in macromedia.dreamweaver, Sbisa wrote:
> I recently read about how to go about changing the URL
address of a
> page so that it is somewhat reversed; where the domain
name is after
> a sub directory name. The effect, for my purposes, would
be to have
> the site address with a customers name first (the
customer's name is
> the name of a sub-folder in the root folder), and then
the domain
> name. The effect is a more personalized URL.
>
> EXAMPLE:
> Current URL -
http://verycoolsite.invalid/dairyqueen
(opens the
> index page from the sub-folder, dairyqueen)
>
> Desired URL -
http://dairyqueen.verycoolsite.invalid
(same site
> index page is opened, but more personalized effect)
>
> This is often seen in blog URL's
(davedog.blogger.invalid).
>
> So, how is this done? Is it done from the ISP? Or is
there code to
> add to the html that will do this?
If you don't own a domain name, please don't use it in
examples. Use
either sitename.invalid (the whole "invalid" top level domain
is
reserved for non-existent domains), or use
example.com|net|org, which
are reserved domain names to use as examples.
It's a combination of DNS (subdomain.example.com has to point
somewhere) and server configuration (your server has to know
that
subdomain.example.com should get served the contents of
/home/sbisa/public_html
Blogs are different in that they are (for the most part)
database
driven, and sbisablog.example.com would be more likely to be
the
equivalent of example.com/blogindex.php?username=sbisa, and
blogindex.php generates pages based on that username.
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.net/
Email:
http://makowiec.net/contact.php