do extension in web pages

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I want to know what is  do extension in web pages  Is it a standard extension  or  if it s not  can we change the extension  like client-login php to client-login do and still run as PHP    Thanks

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do comes from the Struts framework   See this question  Why do Java webapps use  do extension  Where did it come from  Also you can change what your urls look like using mod rewrite  on Apache

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I ve occasionally thought that it might serve a purpose to add a layer of security by obscuring the back-end interpreter through a remapping of  php or whatever to  aspx or whatever so that any potential hacker would be sent down the wrong path  at least for a while   I never bothered to try it and I don t do a lot of webserver work any more so I m unlikely to   However  I d be interested in the perspective of an experienced server admin on that notion

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It is whatever it is configured to be on that particular web server   A web server could be configured to run  pl files with the php module and  aspx files with perl  although that would be silly   There are no scripts involved with most web servers  instead you d have to look in your apache configuration files  or equivalent  if using different server software    If you have permission to edit the server config file  then you could make files ending in  do run as php  if that s what you re after

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do  is the  standard  extension mapped to for Struts Java platform  See http   struts apache org

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Using apache s rewrite module can change your script extensions   Give this thread a good read

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