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[0zz]

I have to UP this topic.. Would be great to have solution on UFUs (User Friendly URLs)..
p.s. .htaccess solution doesn't work for me..

[Dean]

It's not gonna happen any time soon....

[0zz]

in previous versions of Etomite it was possible to create alias names as "folder/name" and use them without prefixes and endings (like .html) and it was quite satisfactory. Is there any way to change things back?

[Ralph]

0zz, on Jan 18 2007, 09:43 AM, said:

in previous versions of Etomite it was possible to create alias names as "folder/name" and use them without prefixes and endings (like .html) and it was quite satisfactory. Is there any way to change things back?

While one or two revisions of Etomite didn't put file extensions on Friendly Aliases there were complaints that for SEO purposes they should be appended so that bit of code was reverted back to adding an extension if one was supplied... It would take some digging in order to find where this would need to be addressed in the parser and there surely won't be a configuration panel change for the current code base to address this issue... Hunting this down isn't at the top of the priority list so if you want to sort your way through the parser to see if you can figure it out, feel free to do so...

[Dean]

I also know why it was possible to use folder/file ... its because the alias field wasn't made safe in the parser, and due to security concerns it had to be...

[schtief]

Hi there,
I created a mod for this topic.
It uses the aliases and has the same logical structure as the document tree in the etomite manager. You just have to change a little thing in the .htaccess and the main index.pxp

look here for friendly url folders

[vw53a]

Hmm, I haven't looked deep into the info, but my guess is that this still is about version 0.6 and not 0.6.1?! The latter already allows only unique aliases, so that's no extra con.

Btw: I like the looks of your site very much. I only couldn't get a grip on what it was about. It contains music, webtools, insurances, ... strange combination...