How Do I Prevent My Entire URL From Displaying ? And Make Only The Directory Show ?

[eperkins153]

I have a website that I built in dreamweaver and is hosted on justhost.com i want my url to display only the directory like this:

www.perkinscomputerrepair.com/security/

but instead it displays

http://perkinscomputerrepair.com/Security/index.html

I read multiple articles that stated if I simply changed my main html file in the directory to index that it would only display the directory but all my pages still display


http://perkinscomputerrepair.com/Security/index.html


instead of

url]http://perkinscomputerrepair.com/Security/[/url]

which is what I want, If anyone could tell me what I need to do to make my website do this it would be greatly appreciated. again I'm using dreamweaver to do my coding and my website is hosted on justhost.com

[teedoff]

http://www.mywebsite.com/directory/index.html

When I click on this link you gave me, I only see www.mywebsite.com/
in the browser window.

Not sure if thats what you're wanting, but it doesn't show the directory folder or the page name.

[eperkins153]

Originally Posted by teedoff

http://www.mywebsite.com/directory/index.html

When I click on this link you gave me, I only see www.mywebsite.com/
in the browser window.

Not sure if thats what you're wanting, but it doesn't show the directory folder or the page name.

That was a just an example link not my actually website address, i just wanted to give an example of what I'm trying to do, I'm sorry for the confusion

[abduraooft]

<ul class="MenuBarHorizontal" id="MenuBar1">
<li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="SystemTuneUp/index.html" tabindex="-1" class="">System Tune Up</a></li>
<li><a href="VirusRemoval/index.html" tabindex="-1" class="">Virus Removal</a></li>
<li><a href="DataRecovery/index.html" tabindex="-1">Data Recovery</a></li>
<li><a href="Internet/index.html" tabindex="-1" class="">Internet Problems</a></li>
<li><a href="ComputerTraining/index.html" tabindex="-1">Computer Training</a></li>
<li><a href="Installation/index.html" tabindex="-1">Hardware Installation</a></li>
<li><a href="Security/index.html" tabindex="-1">Data Security </a></li>
</ul>

All the links in your site points to index.html file in respective folders. Change them all like href="Security/" . Then, to prevent anyone from accessing the urls with index.html, you may add some rules in an .htaccess file, like

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \/index.html\ HTTP [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)index.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

PS: Have you hard-coded all the links in your navigation in every pages?

[DanInMa]

it's referred to as url-rewriting. here is an example for apache servers - http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

[teedoff]

Originally Posted by eperkins153

That was a just an example link not my actually website address, i just wanted to give an example of what I'm trying to do, I'm sorry for the confusion

lol ahh you're right....too early in the morning for me to be commenting on here.

[eperkins153]

Originally Posted by abduraooft

All the links in your site points to index.html file in respective folders. Change them all like href="Security/" . Then, to prevent anyone from accessing the urls with index.html, you may add some rules in an .htaccess file, like

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \/index.html\ HTTP [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)index.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

PS: Have you hard-coded all the links in your navigation in every pages?

thank you so much, It finally works.

[eperkins153]

Originally Posted by abduraooft

All the links in your site points to index.html file in respective folders. Change them all like href="Security/" . Then, to prevent anyone from accessing the urls with index.html, you may add some rules in an .htaccess file, like

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \/index.html\ HTTP [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)index.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

PS: Have you hard-coded all the links in your navigation in every pages?

Does this have a negative effect on SEO ?

[abduraooft]

Does this have a negative effect on SEO ?

Nothing! R=301 is for a permanent rewrite and the search engines will automatically update any previously indexed urls.

<a href="index.html" class="">Home</a>

You just need href="/" there.

[eperkins153]

Originally Posted by abduraooft

Nothing! R=301 is for a permanent rewrite and the search engines will automatically update any previously indexed urls.

You just need href="/" there.

I really appreciate you helping me fix this problem, it seems to be working the way I want it too now thank you,

Can you tell me what you mean by R = 301 ?

[eperkins153]

I really appreciate your help, thank you