Renaming URL of an Article
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- kerrya98
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Happy New Year Everyone!
I was wondering if it's possible to rename an article link so it looks nice as a url. This might open a whole can of worms, but I have a website for a sports company that like to have 'spinoffs' sites - they are really just additional article that we have used a template switcher on.
The site is called www.lakeshorelacrosse.com/ and for instance they have a summer tournament that is call the summer round up. Right now the link to that home page looks like this (Ugly!):
www.lakeshorelacrosse.com/index.php?opti...le&id=189&Itemid=375
Is there any way to change it to something like: www.lakeshorelacrosse.com/summerwarmup
Would be much cleaner in marketing flyers, etc.
Thanks!
Kerry
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Use some SEF URL extension like sh404sef
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- kerrya98
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Awesome. Yes, this is a whole new world. Purchased and installed sh404sef and after a few minor panic attacks of the site looking like it wasn't working all is correct in the world. I thought I needed to add the $livesite to my configuration.php file but in reality the only thing wrong was just renaming htaccess.txt to .htaccess {note the leading . (dot) }
So am up and running and it transformed the urls pretty well. A question if you have experience with this component. It seems it is taking my Category names. Is that a correct statement. And then also my alias names? I just want to see the best way moving forward to title things and categorize. Especially because I see that titling with spaces is creating dashes in the urls.
Also, if I want to change something, is it best to now just do it in the url manager, or change the alias / category in the article. Not sure if it will flow thru and reprogram.
Thanks!
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Please ask sh404sef support to help you properly configure it. We really can't support 3rd party extensions
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- kerrya98
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Gotcha. Heading over to their user manual now.
anything-digital.com/sh404sef/user-manual.html
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- kerrya98
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Hi All,
For anyone looking for help on this I just wanted to mention that the answer was yes, the url takes your category name, and then the alias name to make the page url. The tricky part came when I was lazy, or more likely in situations where I 'copied' articles to make new ones and therefore the alias names were the same for more than one page.
I have found good practice to go back, change those alias names in the articles to unique ones, and then proceed to the sh404sef URL manager. Look up your sef urls for which sh404sef found and recorded duplicates. Click on that one and in the top right corner press on "Delete with dupl." button. It basically regenerates the pages with the new names, and I found this cleared up a lot of my issues.
Menus can still be hairy but this is a start. Kerry
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