We manage an online enrollment site. Customers can ONLY enroll in our program if they come through an agent URL which currently has the format:
While this approach works, it makes it very difficult for our agents to simply send out or ‘tell’ their URL to a potential customer.
I have tossed around the idea of making a subdomain redirect to the format above but our Media temple configuration requires major changes to the apache conf file which we are trying to avoid.
Similarly, I think we could just direct customers to http://www.site.com/agentid but run into the issue where /agentid will be treated as a page instead of an ID (and other times http://www.site.com/pagetitle may actually be used for a real page).
Anybody ever had a similar issue in the past? I’d be happy to hear any opinions for the best approach.
Can you create a subdomain only for referrals, and setup url rewriting on that subdomain? Then it would not conflict with any pages on the main site. Something like
agents.site.com/agentid.