general url questions

R4nd0mPr0 · June 21st, 2011, 07:01 PM

I have two questions, and I am sorry that I do not know the necessary syntax to find the answers via searching.

1. How does one prefix a url? i.e "p2p.wrox.com"

With what I am currently working on, the main site "xxxxx.com" will show statistics of sub sites that you can link to "xxxx.xxxxx.com" depending on the link selected.

2. The sub sites will be revolving around data driven user forms (I believe that is the way to say it). Where as, user is presented with data that he/she can search through by selecting categories -- great example would be a TCG card, they have categories that define them and would help with searching -- and by selecting any number of them and the url will change appropriately per action in the url above. This will allow them to share that url with others so they may see what they have chosen.

I would appreciate any input or information, positive and negative.
Thank you for your time!

Imar · June 22nd, 2011, 04:13 AM

Hi there,

1) Your domain registrar typically does this for you. Many of the companies that register domains for you also have an on-line control panel that you can use to create your own sub domains (such as p2p and www for the wrox.com domain) and point them to an IP address. The web server then needs the correct bindings so each site listens to one or more domain names. Some documentation on bindings: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...92(WS.10).aspx

2) You lost me at "the sub sites"....

Imar

R4nd0mPr0 · June 22nd, 2011, 04:48 PM

Thank you for the speedy reply Imar.

1. You got me pointed in the right direction, I should be able to find what I need now.

2. An example would be a portion of mobafire.com

Specifically

"http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/mastery-tree-planner"

and once you change the value it posts back and returns in your url

"http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/mastery-tree-planner#&tree1=1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&tree2=0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&tree3=0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0"

What I'm trying to ask, is there anyway to implicitly set this up without having to explicitly define every possibility? Allowing for the possibilities without having to have a page for every single one. If you could just point me in the right direction that would be wonderful!

-- Hopefully that clears that last part up a tid bit.

Imar · June 22nd, 2011, 04:59 PM

Quote:

Hopefully that clears that last part up a tid bit

Not really. Based on what would you generate these values?

You can make use of various methods and propertis of the Request class to read those values. For example, for a request like Default.aspx?tree=123, the code:

Request.QueryString["tree"]

in the page Default.aspx would give you 123.

Does that help?

Imar

R4nd0mPr0 · June 27th, 2011, 01:33 AM

You are right on the money! That cleared absolutely everything up, thank you very much for taking the time to answer my vague questions!