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GrooveOnBeat Posted June 1, 2015 Posted June 1, 2015 I used the gateway (index.php in root, and forums in sub folder "forums"). I'm using FURL's. All links work. What I want to do is remove the ".html" at the end of the pages. So the pages appear as if they are in their own directories like below.. mysite.com/articles.html to mysite.com/articles mysite.com/reviews.html to mysite.com/reviews While editing each page, I omitted the ".html" in the Page Filename like below. Links work without the ".html" extension. Is that a correct way of doing it? Before After Edited: After removing the ".html" in the Page Filename, when I make up a filename/subdirectory at the end of "articles" like "mysite.com/articles/fillerfiller/dfdssgre" the link still works. Something tells me I'm doing this wrong?
opentype Posted June 1, 2015 Posted June 1, 2015 While editing each page, I omitted the ".html" in the Page Filename like below. Links work without the ".html" extension. Is that a correct way of doing it?Yes.
GrooveOnBeat Posted June 1, 2015 Author Posted June 1, 2015 Yes. Very simple answer, I like that! I noticed that if I type anything after "/articles/" like the following mysite.com/articles/fsdfsfhe, the URL does not automatically change back to "/articles/". Can I do a rewrite in .htaccess so that the URL will always be mysite.com/articles/?
opentype Posted June 1, 2015 Posted June 1, 2015 I noticed that if I type anything after "/articles/" like the following mysite.com/articles/fsdfsfhe, the URL does not automatically change back to "/articles/".Can I do a rewrite in .htaccess so that the URL will always be mysite.com/articles/?Not sure why you would want that. If articles/fsdfsfhe doesn’t exist, it should return a 404 error.
GrooveOnBeat Posted June 1, 2015 Author Posted June 1, 2015 Not sure why you would want that. If articles/fsdfsfhe doesn’t exist, it should return a 404 error.It should, but on another Page I created it's not. I can type gibberish after the URL and it accepts it. I'm not sure why at this moment.
GrooveOnBeat Posted June 1, 2015 Author Posted June 1, 2015 I'm not 100% on the reason, but the default pages (Articles and Media Demo) are linked to a database, while my pages are not. If I add gibberish at the end of the URL to the default pages, I get an error page. If I add gibberish at the end of the URL on the pages that I created, which are not linked to a database, there is no error page. The rewrite is ignored and the pages still show up. Is that a normal behavior?
opentype Posted June 1, 2015 Posted June 1, 2015 Yes, that is is true. For a database, another URL slug behind the current entry means another category or record. If you are on a simple page, there can’t be any content “below” it and it shows the page. But I am not really sure why you even care about this.
GrooveOnBeat Posted June 1, 2015 Author Posted June 1, 2015 I like clean URL's? The pages that I created are simple for now, since I'm merely constructing the templates, but eventually I'll create databases for them. I wanted to see that I was on the right track when naming the pages. Thanks!
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