Custom URL in CMS Made Simple

[ukashm]

Hi,

It's simple to make friendly urls in CMS MS 1.7 like:

• http://www.domain.com/alias.htm
• http://www.domain.com/alias/

but can sb help me how should I generate URL:

• http://www.domain.com/index.php/inf_cat,alias.htm

I tried modify config.php and .htaccess but to no effect

Lukas

[antek]

Having a problem with similar situation, could someone please reply? Thx in advance :)

[JohnnyB]

Is that URL example possible using the 'Pretty URL' option in the config.php
$config['url_rewriting'] = 'internal';

[ukashm]

Thanks mww, url is better now but there is still a one problem - dots and cedilla are changed on dashes.
Have sb any ideas to fix?

[JohnnyB]

I don't know how to change that - urls with spaces, dots, single quotes etc are changed to dashes.

[calguy1000]

That's because urls with special characters aren't valid.... or well not very well supported at least.
So a design decision was made a very long time ago that any non alphanumeric characters (with few exceptions) would be stripped.

[ukashm]

Do you know any possible to change this despite the fact that urls with special characters aren't valid?

[Dr.CSS]

You have hacked default core files...

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... #msg135168

[ukashm]

Yes, I've modified core CMSMS files, because standard distribution wasn't capable of doing what I needed to do.

Most of the clients doesn't follow internet standards and have no idea about the validity of the link. All that matters to them is their profit, and sometimes they can't afford to (or simply don't want to) sacrifice their SEO positioning for a better compliance with standards. For that I don't think it's rational to make a "design decision" like this, and deliberately cropping the functionality of CMSMS platform, when there aren't any technical constraints for doing what I did.

[antek]

I agree with ukashm. I have used the patch that he pasted, and it works without problems. I hope it will stay like this.

Actually, I was thinking about changing the CMS to something other because of this. Fortunately, thanks to ukashm, I don't have to. Good positions are hard to maintain, and changing link structure sure will not help.

[Jeff]

Yes, I've modified core CMSMS files, because standard distribution wasn't capable of doing what I needed to do.

Most of the clients doesn't follow internet standards and have no idea about the validity of the link. All that matters to them is their profit, and sometimes they can't afford to (or simply don't want to) sacrifice their SEO positioning for a better compliance with standards. For that I don't think it's rational to make a "design decision" like this, and deliberately cropping the functionality of CMSMS platform, when there aren't any technical constraints for doing what I did.

How does removing a comma or a period drop your SEO rating?

[ukashm]

I had to migrate a website from one propetiary CMS system into CMSMS. The company also has SEO campaign active, so I couldn't just change links to what's acceptable by CMSMS - I have to stick to an existing link naming rules. That's why removing a dot, or a comma (which is the format used by the previous CMS) can affect the Google ranking.

[calguy1000]

A) Modifying core files now subjects you to no support for your website
    - we don't know what all you've modified
    - we don't know what the ramifications of those modifications are
    - don't have the time to trace it down
    - if you're capable enough to dig through the source code and hacking it, your capable of doing your own debugging and support.
    - we dont make exceptions

B) Posting modifications to core files in the forum is discouraged
    I removed that post
    - if your modification happens to be wrong and somebody else unknowingly follows it
      (some people will try things just to see if that'll fix their problem, when they really don't understand what the problem is anyways)
      they just got themselves into a worse situation by modifying core files, therefore we won't knowingly allow this to happen.

C) We have a bug tracking and feature tracking mechanism.  USE IT.

D)  There are other solutions to your problem, you just didn't want to look at them.

Now the two of you are unsupported and this thread is closed.