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  • Olly Berry 47 posts 68 karma points
    Dec 10, 2009 @ 12:44
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    URL without directory name possible?

    Hello,

    I have an issue with the urls for a site - I'm not sure if this is possible, but I'll ask anyway...

    I'm trying to severely limit what the client will be able to do with the site, so I have created two "container" document types to hold the pages in the top menu navigation and bottom navigation.

    So the structure I have is:

    Content

     - Pages

        - Top Menu

            - Home

            - Another Page

            - etc.

        - Bottom Menu

            - Sitemap

            - Another Page

            - etc.

    All works nicely for my needs.

    What I would like to do is configure the URLs so that instead of seeing http://mydomain.com/top-menu/home and http://mydomain.com/bottom-menu/sitemap users just see http://mydomain.com/home and http://mydomain.com/sitemap

    Is there a way I can do this in Umbraco (I'm using 4.0.3 on IIS 6, Windows Server 2003 BTW)

    Many thanks in advance,

    Olly

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  • Kristian Frost 18 posts 102 karma points
    Dec 10, 2009 @ 12:52
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    An alternative would be to add a property in your Document Type, which defines wether it should be rendered as top or bottom. Then cut out the two menus in the structure. (ie. add a true/false property with the name "Show in bottom menu")

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  • Olly Berry 47 posts 68 karma points
    Dec 10, 2009 @ 13:15
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    I had considered this Kristian and this was the way I did it initially, but I need the menus in the structure so that the client can easily differentiate the two visually.

    Thanks anyway!

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  • Sebastiaan Janssen 4899 posts 14655 karma points MVP admin hq
    Dec 10, 2009 @ 13:23
    Sebastiaan Janssen
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    You can do this by using URL rewriting to replace "top-menu" and "bottom-menu". I'm not familiar with the url rewriting config, but search for it here or on Google, you should be able to fix this fairly easily.

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  • Olly Berry 47 posts 68 karma points
    Dec 10, 2009 @ 13:59
    Olly Berry
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    Thanks sebastiaan, I'll look into that : )

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  • Jannik Nilsson 38 posts 81 karma points
    Dec 10, 2009 @ 14:31
    Jannik Nilsson
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    What about the umbracoUrlAlias property?

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  • Dirk De Grave 4537 posts 6006 karma points MVP 3x admin c-trib
    Dec 10, 2009 @ 18:11
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    Olly,

    umbracoUrlAlias is a good solution (see Jannik's post), umbracoUrlName is another alternative.

    umbracoUrlAlias provides a second url for the same page whereas umbracoUrlName changes your url permanently.

     

    Hope this helps.

    Regards,

    /Dirk

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  • Casey Neehouse 1339 posts 483 karma points MVP 2x admin
    Dec 10, 2009 @ 19:27
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    @Dirk,

    umbracoUrlName only changes the nodes' segment, not the entire path.  

    Using umbracoUrlAlias and hard coding the links is the only way to go without core modification or post processing.

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  • Olly Berry 47 posts 68 karma points
    Dec 11, 2009 @ 11:02
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    Thanks very much guys : )

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  • Stefan Kip 1606 posts 4098 karma points c-trib
    Dec 11, 2009 @ 11:51
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    @Casey

    umbracoUrlName does change the entire path, so if a document has this url: "/about/company" you can enter "/company".

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  • Stefan Kip 1606 posts 4098 karma points c-trib
    Dec 11, 2009 @ 15:24
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    EDIT

    Oops... It does not change the entire path... :-/

    Sorry

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