How to configure SEO friendly URLs to show only directories and not filenames

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admix Reply #1, 18 years, 9 months ago

My SEO friendly URLs are working but not quite exactly the way I am wanting.

I would like them to display as this:

"http://www.domain.com/about/"

OR

"http://www.domain.com/folder/pagename/

NOT

"http://www.domain.com/about.html" OR "http://www.domain.com/about/prefix.html"

AN EXAMPLE SITE That uses this URL structure is:
http://www.motivemediaco.com

My goal is to allow visitors to the site to NOT have to type in the file extension in order to get to a page or even see the extension when clicking on links.

Why do this? Because, I feel that an average site visitor cares not what language the page is wrote in and is only concerned with the actual content the page is supplying.

Thanks Everyone,

ADMIX

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admix Reply #2, 18 years, 9 months ago

OK got it working on root level documents and folders. However to complete this URL config I now need to get it working on child docs.

Example:

I have a news section (folder)
URL: www.domain.com/news

A news article inside news section (folder)
URL: www.domain.com/news/pagetitle

I would also like to leave flexibility for sub folders such as
URL: www.domain.com/parentfolder/subfolder/pagetitle

Thanks in advance for the help,

ADMIX

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admix Reply #3, 18 years, 9 months ago

OK I was able now to get my desired URL scheme to work the way I want it to.

Here are the SEO Friendly settings I chose...
Use friendly URLs: Yes
Prefix for friendly URLs: Leave field empty
Suffix for friendly URLs: Leave field empty
Use friendly aliases: Yes
Use friendly alias path: Yes
Allow duplicate aliases: Yes (Not yet sure exactly how to save the second alias but it does work with this being set to No too)
Automatically generate alias: Yes

Sorry for waisting anyones time on this who may have started giving the issue some thought. I posted my results though just in case someone else maybe needs help configuring this type of URL scheme.