Site design using subfolders?

vox · 11-07-2007 06:45PM #1

I see alot of sites are now using subfolders instead of having all the html pages in one folder.

Eg. Instead of using domain.com/index.htm it is just going to domain.com/index/
or Instead of using domain.com/name.htm it is just going to domain.com/name/

Anyone know basically how this is done. It looks like a good way of organising things.

aidan_walsh · 11-07-2007 06:51PM

It doesn't necessarily have to be subfolders either, they could just be using mod_rewrite or .htaccess to guide you to the approprate page.

But anyway, basically just sticking a folder with an index.* file on it should do the trick for you.

colm_c · 12-07-2007 12:11AM

Also some CMS/blog tools do this, I know both drupal and wordpress do it anyway, I'm sure there's loads of others that do it too.

jlang · 13-07-2007 10:39AM

It's a good system. Means that links and bookmarks don't break when you upgrade your CMS and the default extension changes from .html to .php or .asp or .cgi or .pl or whatever's the style next year.

zAbbo · 13-07-2007 11:24AM

It's straight forward with directory indexes, or using the default directory index such as index.html etc.

It's also important to not link directly to index.html if you are using that method.

Or just get down and dirty with mod_rewrite.

vox · 13-07-2007 04:27PM

Thanks for all the info. I might attempt it with my next site. BTW Zabbo what do you mean about not linking directly to index.html?

zAbbo · 13-07-2007 08:43PM

vox wrote:

Thanks for all the info. I might attempt it with my next site. BTW Zabbo what do you mean about not linking directly to index.html?

Just link to the directory instead

.ie link to www.site.com/folder and not www.site.com/folder/index.html

Site design using subfolders?

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