Question about friendly URL's on IIS

Hello all,

this is my first post on this forum. I couldn’t find an answer anywhere else (maybe I just didn’t look well enough...) so I’ll try it this way.

I was looking for an easy way to get friendly URL’s on IIS, but not the standard ones like ’page2.html’.

I found that the use of ISAPIRewrite and a slight modification of the DocumentParser class (11 new lines of code) would allow me to have URL’s like www.mydomain.com/Welcome_to_my_website, where "Welcome to my website" is the title of the page in question.

Of course it’s not advisable to modify this class in the light of future updates, so I was wondering if there’s another way to incorporate my code into ModX. Also, if I’ve just re-invented the wheel, I’d appreciate it if someone could show me the original wheel...

Peter

Moving to the appropriate forum, where this was discussed just last week.

Quote from: rthrash at Aug 14, 2007, 12:11 PM

Moving to the appropriate forum, where this was discussed just last week.

Thanks, I guess I’m having a bit of an off day...

Afaik you can do this by simply not entering a suffix in the MODx sef configuration settings, and make a little change to the ISAPI rewrite rule you use.

Olaf

Hoi Olaf, Peter hier!

I don’t think that does the same, really. I see no reference to the pagetitle in regards to the URL in the DocumentParser class.

Quote from: Zaph at Aug 14, 2007, 01:28 PM

I don’t think that does the same, really. I see no reference to the pagetitle in regards to the URL in the DocumentParser class.

Aliases can be automatically created from your page title (see the Automatically Generate Alias option in Friendly URL tab of the Tools --> Configuration), after being run through a function to remove characters that would be invalid in a URL.

Quote from: OpenGeek at Aug 14, 2007, 03:14 PM

Aliases can be automatically created from your page title (see the Automatically Generate Alias option in Friendly URL tab of the Tools --> Configuration), after being run through a function to remove characters that would be invalid in a URL.

I feel a little stupid now...I really need to check things out better before asking questions.

Thank you!

there is not something as a stupid question

Quote from: olafmol at Aug 15, 2007, 12:29 PM

there is not something as a stupid question

No, but there is something like a stupid Peter...

if you say so!
next time you can buy me a beer if this solved your problem