Hi everybody,
My first post.
How do I set up my web site so that I can direct people to the following:
http://www.mysite.com/books
I.E. I want to set up a website which has several different areas to shop from. For example /books, /toys/, /music etc, but I don't want to put the .html after each url. I want them to go directly into the area of their choice without having to first go to the main site and click on another link.
I also want each product to have its own shopping cart within its own folder.
Does this make sense.
maurellis

You could have books as a folder - so when users go to http://www.example.com/books they are going to something like http://www.example.com/books/index.html.

But if you are going to be using a shopping cart (server side language), you might be best to check to see what else is available (i.e. mod-rewrite). You can then use this to basically re-write the URL from something like http://www.example.com/products.aspx&1234 to http://www.example.com/books instead

Thanks but I seem to be doing something wrong.
I have a folder called called 'books' but when i put the url www.mysite.com/books all it produces is the actual folder, then one has to click on index.html before bringing up the page desired. How do I make it go directly to the index page for 'books'?
maurellis

The server should have a list of files that it serves as the dafault page and index.html should be among them. Do you run the server or are you on a shared account? If you are on Apache you can fix this for yourself with .htaccess even if you are on shared hosting. See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_d...#directoryindex . On IIS I don't know.

That said, http://www.example.com/books isn't necessarily the same as http://www.example.com/books/ even if servers seem to be more helpful with that nowadays.

I am on a shared account. I obviously cannot have two index.html pages in the same area, but some nice person emailed me with exactly what I needed to know. They said: Simply make a new folder, within the file manager area, and call it books. Then open it up and upload a file into it and call it index.html. This works perfect. When I use url: www.mysite.com/books it goes straight to that area.
Thanks for all your help
maurellis

But that's how you said you had it to start with. Anyway, good it worked out.