Url parameters passing method

Question

How passing of url parameters works in facebook, twitter , youtube or other similar sites .

eg:

facebook http://www.facebook.com/stackoverflowpage

twitter: http://twitter.com/StackOverflow

you tube: http://www.youtube.com/user/BBCWorldwide

where bold ones are parameters( i believe those are parameters)

What i have seen in most websites is like this,

http://www.website.com/index.php?id=stackoverflow

then how those above websties is passing parameters in different method,how they are doing this?. Or whether when a new user is joined in those website a new file is created in their server.

eg: http://www.facebook.com/stackoverflowpage http://www.facebook.com/stackoverflowpage.php(or .aspx whatever methods)

techfoobar · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-16 05:47:02Z

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This is usually done by URL rewriting on ther server side. For example using .htaccess. A typical situation is: when a request of the form http://server.com/x/y comes in, it is rewritten as http://server.com/index.php?param1=x&param2=y and then passed on to the request processor (say, PHP).

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewrite_engine

answered Jul 16, 2012 at 5:47

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techfoobar Over a year ago

no, the above is only an example. url can be rewritten in a lot of ways depending on your app and/seo/url strategy

Eka Over a year ago

i am using htaccess in my websites. i am passing like this website.com/index.php?id=stackoverflow -> website.com/Home?id=stackoverlfow ..but how how i can convert this url to website.com/stackoverflow using htacess

techfoobar Over a year ago

some examples: roshanbh.com.np/2008/03/url-rewriting-examples-htaccess.html

techfoobar Over a year ago

in your case, it would be: RewriteRule ^stackoverflow$ index.php?id=stackoverflow - this will rewrite /stackoverflow to /index.php?id=stackoverflow

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