URL Rewrite Questions

[jeffdonthemic]

We are building a community site and I'm trying to create some
friendly URLs so that people can pass them out easily. I just started
looking at Mach-II and have an IIS rewrite (IsapiRewrite4) working on
our servers.

I would like to create a URL structure similar to LinkedIn's:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/[my-user-name]

I suppose I *could* create a folder for each user but I would rather
pass a username/id and then load a standard page with the user's
profile from the db. Is this URL structure possible with Mach-II?

Thanks
Jeff

[Peter J. Farrell]

jeffdonthemic said the following on 8/15/2008 7:13 AM:

I think you've answered your question yourself. Getting urls like this
all happen before Mach-II can get its hands on the request. Basically
you'll have to get your rewrite utility to rewrite the url into
something Mach-II can understand. It should not be too hard to get this:

http://www.example.com/in/peterfarrell/

To be rewritten to:

http:///www.example.com/index.cfm?event=showUserHome&userName=peterfarrell

Best,
.Peter

[.jonah]

Yup! Your ISAPI rewrite rule could look something like this:

RewriteRule (.*)\?(.*) /?event=showPage&url=$1&$2

The rules are largely straight-up regex.