Question

I have a DNS, and each computer has a website to make different folders / documents accessible in a different way than just browsing to that computer. For example, \Media takes me to the media servers pages (Music, Movies, etc.), and \Aurora takes me to the media server’s website. Instead of it displaying “Aurora” in the address bar, however, I would like to use a script to replace it with “Aurora – Media Server Website, (server information).” I would really like to learn this method, I tried to look somewhere and it mentioned JavaScript would probably be the easiest way to do this. This would be helpful if I actually knew JavaScript =p If there is an easier way to do this, that would also be much appreciated =]

In a nutshell, I want the address of a website, //Aurora, hosted on a local DNS server to appear as “Aurora – Media Server Website (server information).” What would be a possible way to implement this?

Answer 1

Just use the replaceState method of window.history in JavaScript like so:

window.history.replaceState({}, '', url);

(params are: data (object), title (string), url (string));

I do it all the time to modify the URL, to remove the query string when using AJAX.