Re: URL redirection

From	"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Re: URL redirection
Date	2016-10-14 08:00 +0200
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On 10/13/2016 08:57 PM, bit-naughty@hotmail.com wrote:
> I have a site, www.site.com which has users, and I would like site.com/user to go say, a "profile" page for each user.
> However, say each user can post posts, I'd like site.com/review/2 to go to a page containing a post, ie. the URL has
> to redirect to DIFFERENT URLs (.php programs), depending on whether
"/review/<something>" has been appended to "site.com"
> - how do I do this? And what's going on, behind the scenes actually?
(I know very little about doing URL rewriting on Apache)....

Apache is OT here, a search engine would been able to give you some help
to find a starting point, like:

https://www.sitepoint.com/apache-mod_rewrite-examples/

The simplest is to make all requests of the format not accessing any
real pages to be redirected to one page which looks at the request url
and then serves what you need, this is how popular CMS works.

-- 

 //Aho

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