Friendly urls

[DonnaNJ]

We are using friendly urls on this site

http://www.omegawomenscenter.com/index.php/insurance

and it all seems to be working

However client doesn't like the index.php inbetween - he read somewhere that this is not good for the search engines and doesn't want it.

He wants  just /pagename - like we see on many other sites.

Is there a way to fix this ? Should I just put a redirect for each page into the .htaccess or something ?

Or is there another way to reconfigure this a config file  ?  OR

Thanks

DonnaNJ

[Rolf]

Hi DonnaNJ

If this website is on a Windows server, you have no other choice...

Is the site on a linux server, you can change this line in the config.php

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$config['url_rewriting'] = 'internal';

to

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$config['url_rewriting'] = 'mod_rewrite';

Regards, Rolf

[DonnaNJ]

OK tried that- on  hover the url looks right -but clicking gives a page-not-found

So I added the following to  the  .htaccess (found in another post)

Options +FollowSymLinks
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteBase /

  # 301 Redirect all requests that don't contain a dot or trailing slash to
  # include a trailing slash
  # except for form POSTS
  # RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
  # RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.
  # RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST$
  # RewriteRule ^(.*) %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]

  # Rewrites urls in the form of /parent/child/
  # but only rewrites if the requested URL is not a file or directory
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule ^(.+).htm$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA]


Still-page-not-found error.

Site is live so I had to go back to pretty urls.

DonnaNJ

[Rolf]

Hi DonnaNJ

Your test shows that you are on a Windows server...
Windows doesn't do anything with the .htaccess file, thats why you get 404 errors.

You need to use Internal to get 'pretty' url.
And as far as I know this means you always get index.php in the url.

Regards, Rolf

[Nullig]

In your config.php file did you have the following set:

$config['page_extension'] = '.htm';

Nullig

[Wishbone]

Your test shows that you are on a Windows server...
Windows doesn't do anything with the .htaccess file, thats why you get 404 errors.

If the Windows server is running Apache, it will read .htaccess files.

[compufairy]

I had to install CMSMS on a Windows server. The hoster had a nice description (and the ONLY referral to CMS Made Simple in the FAQ) how to active pretty URL in CMS Made Simple on their server. I give it to you here, maybe this works for you too...

Change "URL Settings" in config as described below.

   #------------
   #URL Settings
   #------------

   #Show mod_rewrite URLs in the menu? You must enable 'use_hierarchy' for this to work for modules
   $config['assume_mod_rewrite'] = True;

   #Extension to use if you're using mod_rewrite for pretty URLs.
   $config['page_extension'] = '/';

   #If you don't use mod_rewrite, then would you like to use the built-in
   #pretty url mechanism? This will not work with IIS and the {metadata} tag
   #should be in all of your templates before enabling.
   $config['internal_pretty_urls'] = True;

   #If you're using the internal pretty url mechanism or mod_rewrite, would you like to
   #show urls in their hierarchy? (ex. http://www.mysite.com/parent/parent/childpage)
   $config['use_hierarchy'] = false;

   #If using none of the above options, what should we be using for the query string
   #variable? (ex. http://www.mysite.com/index.php?page=somecontent)
   $config['query_var'] = 'page';


Then make a file in the www root called "httpd.ini". In this file you write:

   [ISAPI_Rewrite]

   RewriteRule /([^/]+)/ /index.php?page=$1 [I,L]
   RewriteCond Host: ^uwdomein.nl
   RewriteRule (.*) http://www.uwdomein.nl$1 [I,RP]

Hope this works for you. If it does, please put [SOLVED] in front of topic.
Regards,

Anne-Mieke

[Dr.CSS]

That looks like a very old config.php, mine look like this...

#What type of URL rewriting should we be using for pretty URLs?  Valid options are:
#'none', 'internal', and 'mod_rewrite'.  'internal' will not work with IIS some CGI
#configurations. 'mod_rewrite' requires proper apache configuration, a valid
#.htaccess file and most likely {metadata} in your page templates.  For more
#information, see:
#http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... ty_URL.27s
$config['url_rewriting'] = 'mod_rewrite';

#Extension to use if you're using mod_rewrite for pretty URLs.
$config['page_extension'] = '.html';

#If you're using the internal pretty url mechanism or mod_rewrite, would you like to
#show urls in their hierarchy?  (ex. htt***.mysite.com/parent/parent/childpage)
$config['use_hierarchy'] = true;

#If using none of the above options, what should we be using for the query string
#variable?  (ex. htt***.mysite.com/index.php?page=somecontent)
$config['query_var'] = 'page';


Note: *** added to not make links...