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  • FarmFreshCode 225 posts 422 karma points
    Oct 06, 2011 @ 19:12
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    Hide /home/ directory in URL

    Ok so I have a site currently with URLS like:
    http://mysite.com/home/welcome/

    I don't want /home/ to show in the URL.  I want it to look like this: http://mysite.com/welcome/
    Now I know I could remove all the pages and stuff out from the "Home" node and take care of this problem. However, if I could work around it that would be great because I really like having that organization.

    So in my UrlRewriting.config file I have written this bit of code:

    <add name="hideHome"
      virtualUrl="^~/(.*)"
      rewriteUrlParameter="ExcludeFromClientQueryString"
      destinationUrl="~/home/$1"
      ignoreCase="true"
    />

    Now this code works, so that if I manually type in the address:
    http://mysite.com/welcome/
    It pulls up the page and everything looks great...

    HOWEVER.. all of my links on my site still point to URLs that include /home/ in the URL and therefore go to error 404 pages.

    How can I fix this issue? Is there a better way to hide the /home/ directory in the URLs?

    Would love some help in "Novice" terms im still pretty new to .Net in general.
    THANKS!!!

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  • Greg Fyans 140 posts 342 karma points
    Oct 06, 2011 @ 19:20
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    Hey,

    In the web.config there is an appSetting called umbracoHideTopLevelNodeFromPath, I think setting this to true will do what you want.

    Cheers,
    Greg. 

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  • FarmFreshCode 225 posts 422 karma points
    Oct 06, 2011 @ 19:34
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    Hi Greg!

    Thanks for your pointer. That actually works great, however it's breaking my uBlogsy install since that has a topLevelNode too.. hmmm Trying to work out a way to work around that now.

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  • Greg Fyans 140 posts 342 karma points
    Oct 06, 2011 @ 19:36
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    Hmm that's not good, I think you'd better alert the author of that package by posting in the package forum.

    http://our.umbraco.org/projects/starter-kits/ublogsy

    I've never used uBlogsy so can't assist there unfortunately.

    Cheers,
    Greg. 

     

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  • FarmFreshCode 225 posts 422 karma points
    Oct 06, 2011 @ 20:37
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    Well I was able to compensate for this via a rewrite rule:

    <add name="blogFIX"
            virtualUrl="^~/news/"
            rewriteUrlParameter="ExcludeFromClientQueryString"
            destinationUrl="~/blog/"
            ignoreCase="true"
        />

    Sooo I guess that will cover all my angles at this point.. thanks!

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