How to shorten the web site address?

[rosa hsiao]

Is there any way to shorten the web site address in the browser?


1) visit user's web site by typing

"http://www.example.com/user01/"
instead of
"http://www.example.com/~webid_user01/"

2) login to user's webmail by typing

"http://www.example.com/user01/webmail"
instead of
"http://www.example.com:81/webmail/index.php?lid=2&tid=0&f_user=&six=&f_email=user01@example.com"

[falko]

1) visit user's web site by typing

"http://www.example.com/user01/"
instead of
"http://www.example.com/~webid_user01/"


You can create a folder user01 manually and then redirect from it to http://www.example.com/~webid_user01/.


2) login to user's webmail by typing

"http://www.example.com/user01/webmail"
instead of
"http://www.example.com:81/webmail/index.php?lid=2&tid=0&f_user=&six=&f_email=user01@example.com"
The same here.

[rosa hsiao]

You can create a folder user01 manually and then redirect from it to http://www.example.com/~webid_user01/.
The same here.

Do you mean to create a folder user01 manually under /home/www/webid/user/ and copy all the web pages from /home/www/webid/user/webid_user01/web to /home/www/webid/user01/web or just create a symbolic link to it?


I can write a php to redirect "http://www.example.com/~webid_user01/webmail"
to
"http://www.example.com:81/webmail/index.php?lid=2&tid=0&f_user=&six=&f_email=user01@example.com".

But I don't want the browser to see where the redirected web address is.
How can I prevent the browser from seeing the whole redirected web string as http://www.example.com:81/webmail/index.php?lid=2&tid=0&f_user=&six=&f_email=user01@example.com?


Can you show me steps as how to achieve those goals without fail?

[falko]

Do you mean to create a folder user01 manually under /home/www/webid/user/ and copy all the web pages from /home/www/webid/user/webid_user01/web to /home/www/webid/user01/web or just create a symbolic link to it?
No, you create the folder user01 manually under /home/www/webid/web (/home/www/webid/web/user01) and then create a redirect (e.g. with PHP) in that folder to /home/www/webid/user01/web.



But I don't want the browser to see where the redirected web address is.
How can I prevent the browser from seeing the whole redirected web string as http://www.example.com:81/webmail/index.php?lid=2&tid=0&f_user=&six=&f_email=user01@example.com?


Can you show me steps as how to achieve those goals without fail?
It might be possible to achieve it with Apache rewrite rules: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/misc/rewriteguide.html

[rosa hsiao]

No, you create the folder user01 manually under /home/www/webid/web (/home/www/webid/web/user01) and then create a redirect (e.g. with PHP) in that folder to /home/www/webid/user01/web.


Thanks a lot. I will give it a try.

[rosa hsiao]

No, you create the folder user01 manually under /home/www/webid/web (/home/www/webid/web/user01) and then create a redirect (e.g. with PHP) in that folder to /home/www/webid/user01/web.


I did as you suggested and by using smbolic link,the alias problem was solved. Thanks!