Making custom pages url friendly

[EnergyFreak +]

What version of 68 Classifieds are you running?
Example: V4.1.6 Designer

What template are you using?

purple
Please describe in detail the issue you are having:

Hi,

I have just created a help page from the page editor, and this is what it gave me as a link:

http://www.yoursite.com/pages.php?page=6

How can I change it to http://www.yoursite.com/help.html for example, is this possible or..?

Thanks.

[seymourjames +]

68C sell an SEF module for nicely formatted urls. Its on their site.

[EnergyFreak +]

Originally Posted by seymourjames

68C sell an SEF module for nicely formatted urls. Its on their site.

Ya I have that module and it is activated but still no change.

[seymourjames +]

Then have you followed the instructions on how to set up the module and your .htaccess file. Post the lines you have affecting pages in both modules here.

[EnergyFreak +]

Originally Posted by seymourjames

Then have you followed the instructions on how to set up the module and your .htaccess file. Post the lines you have affecting pages in both modules here.

Both modules? Yes I have followed the instructions to install the module. I have uploaded the .htaccess and I have added this line over my stylesheet like I was suppose to, <base href="{$smarty.const.URL}/" />

But no change.

[seymourjames +]

have you tried rewritebase in yoiur .htaccess

like this

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

.
.
.

#pages
RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)\.html$ pages.php?page=$1 [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^page/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)\.html$ pages.php?pg=$1 [NC,QSA]

[EnergyFreak +]

Originally Posted by seymourjames

have you tried rewritebase in yoiur .htaccess

like this

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

.
.
.

#pages
RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)\.html$ pages.php?page=$1 [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^page/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)\.html$ pages.php?pg=$1 [NC,QSA]

I just added

PHP Code:

RewriteBase / 


to my .htaccess and it did not change anything, but no I did not have it before.

[seymourjames +]

If you have not modified the code from the advised .htaccess file and SEO module you should arrive wirth urls in the form below without difficultly.

http://www.mysite.com/page/mypage.html

What happens when you copy and paste your "html" link directly into your browser? If it works then you do not have the right link in your template to start with that can be successfully converted. If you have not modified your template links then this should be raised with 68C as a potential bug.

I also presume you have put "help" into the URI field when you defined the page in your admin control panel.

I just tested the module on our demo templates and it works perfectly.

[EnergyFreak +]

Hi seymour,

Here are screens of the files that I ahve modified, so you can see if I did everything right. My module is also uploaded and activated and the following changes have been applied to the files. Guessing from the first screen my url should be www.yoursite.com/aide.html?

If everything I did is right, then I will report the bug.

Thanks.

[seymourjames +]

How is this

www.yoursite.com/aide.html

similar to this

www.mysite.com/page/mypage.html or in your case www.yoursite.com/page/aide.html


Secondly, why are you putting that code into your layout.tpl file? I don't see why it is needed.

Thirdly you may not need the rewrite base in the .htaccess.