What is this type of linking, or direct, called?

Asked Jan 11 '17 at 22:52

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So I'm building a website and a user's profile link would be like this

domain.com/profile.php?name=john.smith

But what is it called for it to be like this instead

domain.com/john.smith

Normally this would return a 404 error since it's not a file or directory in the root.

edited Jan 11 '17 at 22:54

asked Jan 11 '17 at 22:52

TehPirate

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its called url rewriting. you create a rule that translates "/john.smith" into "profile.php?name=john.smith" – Lars Stegelitz Jan 11 '17 at 22:54
You can rewrite URLs like that with the help of `.htaccess`, Google "htacces url rewrite" – Qirel Jan 11 '17 at 22:55
Check this out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20563772/reference-mod-rewrite-url-rewriting-and-pretty-links-explained – Don't Panic Jan 11 '17 at 22:57

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