Let’s say I have a website at www.example.com with a subdirectory, www.example.com/users/
Is there anything I can do on the server side to force all HTML pages in /users/ to display a banner and/or pop-up without modifying the HTML files themselves?
Is this something an .htaccess or similar can accomplish?
(The banner is meant to tell viewers that they’re viewing third-party content hosted on, but not managed or endorsed by, example.com)
ETA: The server is running Linux with Apache
I’m thinking of using .htaccess rewrites to redirect all HTML files to a PHP script, which will prepend the banner and then output the rest of the original HTML.
Is there a more elegant way?
Are you saying you can’t modify the html files in /users/ or that you can’t modify the html files in any of example.com?
If it’s the former, you could load up example.com/users.html (a new file) that contains the banner and an iframe, the src of the iframe being example.com/users/
As the user clicks through the pages in the /users/ app, the URL in the browser would stay as users.html, and the banner would remain at the top of the page, but the /users/ app would chug along from within the iframe.
The former. Can’t (more accurately, don’t want to) modify files in /users/.
But I don’t want the functionality to be limited to people who view users.html. I want anyone who visits example.com/users/john/index.html or example.com/users/bob/index2.html or any other HTML file to automatically and forcibly see the banner.
I’ve resorted to the .htaccess method I mentioned because I couldn’t think of any other way. It wasn’t as hard as I thought, but if anyone has a better way, I’m still all ears 