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This is Ben Langhinrichs with Genii Software presenting a mini-lesson on
using Domino's Internet Site Rules to "Hide Your unmentionables"
or in other words to hide the complexities in your URLs.
If we go to Mini-Lessons.info, you'll notice we go straight to the database.
If we click on one of the menu buttons, we'll go to Mini-Lessons.info/Gimp
Again, no database mentioned.
Go down and this page has a number of different lessons
on Gimp, the photo-manipulation tool.
Go to Notes/Domino and similarly we will see Notes/Domino lessons.
But if we want to go to a specific lesson, such as Notes#1, which is
the first lesson on here, we can change the URL to say Notes1
we'll go to a page with that individual lesson.
but also allows for feedback at the bottom.
The way we accomplish these shortened URLs that hide the ugly
is that we go to our Domino directory (NAMES.NSF) on our server,
go to Internet Sites under the Web category.
and for each website -- there are multiple ones on this server --
we go in the website document. This is the one for Mini-Lessons.info.
That's the primary database for Mini-Lessons.info
This is not the Default website.
If we go under the Configuration tab, we'll see Lessons.nsf
We can also set up these website rules
For instance, this is for /About
You will see that we have Substitution rules and Redirection rules.
A "Redirection" would replace the URL in the search bar,
But a "Substitution" leaves the URL the same, which hides things.
Now, what we have is a rule for each of our topics, such as Gimp
where we'll have a URL pattern which is /Gimp* (slash Gimp asterisk)
and then this whole long mess. You'll notice at the end is an asterisk.
That will be replaced with whatever was after Gimp in the original pattern
Now, we have one of these rules for each topic,
so under Notes, we have a rule with a /Note* or slash Notes asterisk
and again it goes to the end and replaces the asterisk.
Back in here when we had Mini-Lessons.info/Notes1, that was replaced.
Inside our database, we recognize that as a specific Lesson document
So that's how you use Domino's Internet Site Rules. Thank you, and
visit Mini-Lessons.info for more mini-lessons on Notes and other topics.