Thanks to Jake for name checking Reader's Digest UK. Just thought I'd give a little more detail about what we do and why. Apache sits in front of Domino on a separate server. URL redirection is only one of the reasons why we do this but Apache does it very well. The config file contains a few lines of regular expressions that get mapped to Domino databases. It's not only page URLs that get mapped this way - resources like images are also mapped. We don't just do this to benefit the customers, though that's a big reason. As Jake mentioned, search engines like simple URLs. Another reason is that we have a nice content management system built in Domino and friendly URLs make things simpler for our editorial staff. Domino is excellent for content managment, as you might guess. I can't mention all this stuff without doing my own name checkfor NIP without whom none of this would be possible.
Thanks to Jake for name checking Reader's Digest UK. Just thought I'd give a little more detail about what we do and why. Apache sits in front of Domino on a separate server. URL redirection is only one of the reasons why we do this but Apache does it very well. The config file contains a few lines of regular expressions that get mapped to Domino databases. It's not only page URLs that get mapped this way - resources like images are also mapped. We don't just do this to benefit the customers, though that's a big reason. As Jake mentioned, search engines like simple URLs. Another reason is that we have a nice content management system built in Domino and friendly URLs make things simpler for our editorial staff. Domino is excellent for content managment, as you might guess. I can't mention all this stuff without doing my own name checkfor NIP without whom none of this would be possible.
Cheers - Chris