Re: FN-FORUM: Puzzled

date posted 22nd January 2005 02:26

On 21 Jan 2005 19:54:48 -0000, PAMELA WHITTAKER [EMAIL REMOVED]
wrote:

>I am puzzled. I am in the middle of moving a site that we have taken =
over to=20
>a new Host and I am getting 404 messages when I click on the Navigation=20
>buttons at the top of the page. These say:-
>
>
>
>
>ABOUT US
>CONTACT
>
>
>about_us.htm and contact.htm don't exist or at least we havn't been =
given=20
>them but the Live site works. What does work is
>
>ABOUT=20
>US
>CONTACT
>
>Is it possible that there is something on the server that changes the =
links=20
>and what could it be?

It could be a URL filter- you can get them for IIS, I assume also for =
other
servers. One reason is that search engines don't generally index content
on dynamic pages, so if you can make a dynamic page look like a static
one....

Also can be used to simplify/obscure URLs.

Another way to do this is using a "reverse proxy", which hangs on port =
80,
with the real server on e.g. 8080, and filters/changes URLs on the fly.
You can use this to logically combine multiple servers into a single
"site", for security and for cosmetic reasons.
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Marc Wilson

Cleopatra Consultants Limited - IT Consultants
2 The Grange, Cricklade Street, Old Town, Swindon SN1 3HG
Tel: (44/0) 845 890-3012 Fax: (44/0) 871 236-1531=20
Skype: cleo-marc
Mail: [EMAIL REMOVED] Web: http://www.cleopatra.co.uk
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