I would turn on friendly urls.  You should use the AddUrlRewriteRule.config.  I dont know much about it but i guess you could use a regex or something to remove the wwwroot from url?  Charles :)

 

http://www.urlrewriting.net/160/en/documentation.html.  The documentation is here.  That should help i hope :)

Thanks for the suggestions, Charles. As I mentioned, despite my best efforts, I couldn't get the GoDaddy shared hosting environment to recognize the URL rewrite parameter specified in web.config. Would recognize a redirect, but no, not rewriters. Hours of research suggested this was probably a GoDaddy issue. I even found some who'd abandoned GoDaddy ship out of sheer frustrating.

Enter the workaround. Using Eric Herlitz's MasterPage Codefile generator, I wired up a brand new codebehind for the default master page (~/Umbraco/masterpages/default.Master). In that .cs file, I wrote a script that basically gets the current URL, strips out the root folder (in my case, wwwroot), then forces a 301 redirect to the new, directory-free page.  One downside, it requires a cookie to prevent a redirect loop, but that's a minor inconvenience in my case. I'm sure people could think of other ways to avoid the redirect loop.

In all, the benefits outweigh the cons. Because it's the master page, it applies to all Umbraco child pages! And it even handles relative links specified by CMS users automatically. Lastly, thanks to ASP.NET 4.0's Response.RedirectPermanent, it's an SEO-conscious solution.

NOTE: For this to work, you must have your URL setup to forward straight to the directory. If you don't have that setup, you'll get 404s.

For the benefit of the public:

// Umbraco/masterpages/default.Master.cs

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.UI;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

 

namespace masterpages

{

    public partial class defaultMaster : System.Web.UI.MasterPage

    {

        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

// Remove root directory from default URL for user/SEO.

// Example default URL: www.domain.com/wwwroot/store/default.aspx

string thisURL = Request.Url.ToString();

if (thisURL.Contains("/wwwroot"))

{

// NEXT: Remove root directory from URL

thisURL = thisURL.Replace("/wwwroot", string.Empty);

// URL after above string.Replace: www.domain.com/store/default.aspx

// NEXT: Get relative path

thisURL = thisURL.Substring(thisURL.IndexOf('/'), thisURL.Length-thisURL.IndexOf('/'));

// URL after above string.Substring: /store/default.aspx

 

// Use cookie to note the page has been loaded (to avoid redirect loops).

HttpCookie page301ed = Request.Cookies["PageLoaded"];

 

// If that cookie doesn't exist, we're on the first load. Note it.

if (page301ed == null)

{

HttpCookie newCookie = new HttpCookie("PageLoaded");

newCookie.Value = "True";

newCookie.Expires = DateTime.Now;

Response.Cookies.Add(newCookie);

Response.RedirectPermanent(thisURL); // 301s out the root folder for search engines.

}

 

// If that cookie already exists, we've already been through this. Kill the cookie and stay put.

if (page301ed != null && page301ed.Value == "True")

{

// Kill cookie. Sometimes server time is off from local time, and cookies don't expire automatically.

page301ed.Expires = DateTime.Now.AddDays(-1D);

Response.Cookies.Add(page301ed);

}

}

        }

    }

}

Thanks, i will have a look at this.  It looks like quite a neat little fix.  Sorry did not realise there was a responce on here :)  Was going to suggest just rewirting the url

Charles,

I actually did manage to get a web config solution to work, and I'll share that too for everyone. This all assumes you have Umbraco installed to its own directory, as is required by a hosting provider such as GoDaddy, where you can't configure an ASP.NET application in IIS to run from the root directory.

In the system.webServer section of your ROOT web.config (*not* your umbraco web.config file), add the following, replacing "domain.com" and "wwwroot" with your domain the directory, respectively:

<rewrite>
<rules>
<!-- FIRST TWO RULES FORCE PERMANENT REDIRECT TO WWWROOT
     WHILE MASKING DIRECTORY FROM BROWSER AND SEARCH ENGINES -->
<rulename="WWWROOT_AddTrailingSlash"stopProcessing="true">
<matchurl="(.*)"/>
<conditionslogicalGrouping="MatchAll">
<addinput="{HTTP_HOST}"pattern="www.domain.com"/>
<addinput="{URL}"pattern="^[^\.]+[^/]$"/>
</conditions>
<actiontype="Redirect"url="http://{HTTP_HOST}{URL}/"/>
</rule>
<rulename="WWWROOT_ForceRedirectAndMask">
<matchurl="(.*)"/>
<conditionslogicalGrouping="MatchAll">
<addinput="{HTTP_HOST}"pattern="www.domain.com"/>
<!-- If you have exceptions, note them in the pattern field -->
<addinput="{REQUEST_URI}"pattern="^/(store|wwwroot/umbraco)"negate="true"/></conditions>
<actiontype="Rewrite"url="wwwroot/{R:1}"/>
</rule>
<!-- WWWROOT RULE EXCEPTION FOR CMS ACCESS -->
<rulename="WWWROOT_IgnoreForCMS"stopProcessing="true">
<matchurl="^~/umbraco"/>
<actiontype="Redirect"url="http://www.domain.com/wwwroot/umbraco/"appendQueryString="false"redirectType="Permanent"/>
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>

Thanks for that :)

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