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Question

Looking to do the following:

domain.com - root directly with unique files that are different than individual cities.

domain.com/city_name - this folder will have CMS elements and individual content based on the city the user ends up at.

Ultimately, all files to control the CMS will be in /city_name but I page a file called pageLoader.php?page=$1 so I can do a $_GET['']; and request the name of the city they've entered, example: domain.com/vancouver

So, what I need to do is "mask" the city_name folder with

/vancouver, /los-angeles etc...

Is this possible? How would I go about doing this.

ANY RESPONSE IS SUPER HELPFUL on a deadline for a project and having difficulties figuring this out.

Thanks.

EDIT: basically need to read the /city_name folder when someone types in /vancouver

Answer 1

First, are you using Apache or IIS? Anyway I guess you can do the following...

In the .htaccess (Apache):

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) -d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1

In the web.config (IIS)

<rule name="rewrite" stopProcessing="true" >
    <match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="true" />
    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
        <add input="%(REQUEST_FILENAME)" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
    </conditions>
    <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php?page={R:1}" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>