Hi,

I have a website, http://www.example.me, that is for my entire family. I have a my own few pages, and iweb made their url http://www.example.me/family_website/my_home.html. I want to be able to type http://www.example.me/myname and have it redirect me to it.

I succeeded in putting some html code in a file so I could type /myname.html, but how do I get rid of the .html part? And how could I change the www. to myname. and have that redirect them?

Thanks for your time!

What are you hosting your website with? MobileMe? Then you have no chance to do any of the things you would like to do.

If you have another hosting then you have to see whether your hosting allows you to do all that stuff by contacting your hosting or looking at your hosting's help documentation.


As of this page
http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/3715021.htm
to remove the .html extension from the URLs you can put some code in the .htaccess file. Contact your hosting for help on achieving that.

Otherwise make a site in iWeb and name it after you name then on the page in the site add a redirect to your page.
This way entering http://example.com/your_name
redirects to
http://example.com/your_name/page.html
which in turn redirects to
http://example.com/family_website/yourpage.html

myname.example.com
is a subdomain of
example.com
contact your hosting to know how to have subdomains. Then build a page to redirect people to your page and upload it to your subdomain
your_name.example.com
will then redirect to
http://example.com/family_website/yourpage.html

Subdomains are usually used for multiple websites (entire sites) not just to redirect to one page of another site. To me it would make sense if you had
your_name.example.com
your_wife_name.example.com
your_son_name.example.com
your_daughter_name.example.com
and everyone had his own site (not just one page of another site)
example.com would then just be a page from which you choose which of the family member's site you want to visit
but to me it doesn't make much sense to redirect to one page of another site.

Regards,
Cédric

I do use MobileMe. So I can't do any of that? Even the subdomain? Could I do it if I switched to a more flexible program than iWeb?

This has nothing to do with iWeb.

Ask your domain registrar whether you can have sub-domains and have them redirecting to a particular page on the registrar's page.

MobileMe itself doesn't allow you to manage sub-domains and doesn't give you the chance to modify the .htaccess file. Whether you use iWeb or not doesn't change anything for that. You would have to move your site away from MobileMe to a real hosting.

Regards,
Cédric