Friendly Url in format 'mydomain.com/username' without Mod Rewrite?

Question

I would like to know if there's an easier way other than Mod Rewrite (using the fusebox framework or directly in Coldfusion) to convert a url as follows:

from:

http://www.somedomain.com/salmahayek
or 
http://localhost/someApp/salmahayek

to:

http://www.somedomain.com/index.cfm?action=profile.view&name=salmahayek
or
http://localhost/someApp/index.cfm?action=profile.view&name=salmahayek

My app is an existing Fusebox 5.5 application.

I just need to add that the url above is not static, i.e. "salmahayek" could be any name.

Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks

Answer 1

You could potentially use the "classic" way of doing it (not sure if Fusebox will interfere), using a 404 handler, something like this should do the trick:

1. Set up a 404 hander on your server, e.g. in .htaccess:

   ErrorDocument 404 /404handler.cfm

2. set up 404handler.cfm to wrap around the framework, e.g.:

    <cfset variables.checksok = false>
    <!--- do some checks - example --->
    <cfif cgi.REDIRECT_URL EQ 'salmahayek'>
        <cfset variables.checksok = true>
    </cfif>
    <cfif variables.checksok EQ true>
        <cfheader statuscode="200" statustext="OK">
        <cfset url.action = "profile.view">
        <cfset url.name = cgi.REDIRECT_URL>
        <cfinclude template="index.cfm">
    </cfif>

(not tested but should work)