Hi

In my local dnn website, i just wanted to change the friendly url.

I want to show url like http://localhost/dotnetnukeblog/Home/username instead of http://localhost/dotnetnukeblog/Home/tabid/38/Default.aspx.

In the host settings, when i set this, it doesn't work. only default url is displayed.

Any suggestions or solutions. Pls reply.

Thanks,

Swaminathan,

Web Application Engineer,

www.steadfastglobal.com

Swaminathan

The host-friendly url settings switch only changes the urls from default.aspx?tabid=38 to /home/tabid/38/default.aspx.

The 'rules' you can see for friendly urls are rewriting rules only.  That is, you can set up rules to convert a particular requested url into the default.aspx?tabid=xx format that DotNetNuke uses.  You cannot use these rules to change the way a Url looks.  In other words, you could create a rule to rewrite /home/username to default.aspx?tabid=38&user=username but you can't make the home page start generating urls with a users' username on the end of the url.  To do that you need to modify module code or similar.  It's particularly hard with the home page because that's what the majority of your external links will be to.

With regards to taking off the .aspx from the end, Erik is correct in that you can't do that with standard DNN either.  I have a module which can remove the .aspx for you if you like, but, as Erik says, you need to change IIS settings to get it to work.  If you're runnign IIS7, the module will do it for you automatically, but if you're on IIS6 you need to change the IIS configuration.  The module is available at http://www.ifinity.com.au/Products/Url_Master_DNN_SEO_Urls/

If you want to build a myspace/facebook/twitter style url like www.mysite.com/username then you're going to have to delve into the deep dark world of Url Rewriting quite deeply and write custom code.  There's no switch on DNN to magically make it start working.

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for such a detailed suggestion.

Even if the url comes like http://localhost/dotnetnukeblog/Home/Default.aspx  or http://localhost/dotnetnukeblog/Home/  , it is fine for me.

And for showing a blog page, i want  url like http://localhost/dotnetnukeblog/Home/BlogID/Blog name/Default.aspx or http://localhost/dotnetnukeblog/Home/BlogID/Blog name/   instead of http://localhost/dotnetnukeblog/Home/tabid/38/BlogID/6/Default.aspx

since showing extension is fine for me, i don't need that module.which you have specified.

I just don't want to show that default.aspx and tab id in the url.

Awaiting your suggestion.

Thanks,

Swaminathan

Web Application Engineer,

www.steadfastglobal.com