Umbraco ships with a url rewriting module called UrlRewriting.net so you can edit your UrlRewriting.config to your requirements. For documentation see http://urlrewriting.net

Yep, UrlRewriting is the way to go... quick example:

<add name="sexyUrl" virtualUrl="^~/property/indepth/(.*)/(.*)/([\d]*)" destinationUrl="~/indepth.aspx?id=$1" rewriteUrlParameter="ExcludeFromClientQueryString" ignoreCase="true" />

Cheers, Lee.

Awesome response, thanks guys. Already got it working. Next problem though is how to make the urls SEO friendly similar to NiceUrl but without a node id?

Built up some simple templates which do some swapping of characters and happy to go that route but wondering if there is anything already out there?

Quick example. I want to convert this:

Flat 4 - Some street or other, Huddersfield

to

/flat-4-some-street-or-other/huddersfield/

I'm using this at the minute which works but leaves double "--" in the url :(

<xsl:variable name="uppercase" select="'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'" />
<xsl:variable name="lowercase" select="'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" />

<xsl:template name="Helpers.toLowerCase"><xsl:param name="input" select="''" /><xsl:value-of select="translate( $input, $uppercase, $lowercase )" /></xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="Helpers.toSEOFriendly">
    <xsl:param name="input" select="''" />
    <xsl:variable name="dodgyChars" select="' ,.#_-'" />
    <xsl:variable name="replacementChar" select="'-----'" />
    <xsl:variable name="lowercased"><xsl:call-template name="Helpers.toLowerCase"><xsl:with-param name="input" select="$input" /></xsl:call-template></xsl:variable>
    <xsl:variable name="escaped"><xsl:value-of select="translate( $lowercased, $dodgyChars, $replacementChar )" /></xsl:variable>
    <xsl:value-of select="$escaped" />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="/">
  Url: <xsl:call-template name="Helpers.toSEOFriendly"><xsl:with-param name="input" select="num" /></xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>

Hi Peter,

You could write an XSLT extension to use built-in Umbraco methods?

e.g. To remove/replace unwanted characters, use:

umbraco.cms.helpers.url.FormatUrl( String )

This method loops through each of the chars from "requestHandler/urlReplacing" in "umbracoSettings.config".

But if you want to keep it all in XSLT, then using the "translate()" function should be suffice.

Cheers, Lee.

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