I'm moving my existing website over onto DNN, but I do not want old links to my site to break. The format of my urls on my past system was: "www.example.com/writing-good-examples/like-this", whereas in DNN this would be "www.example.com/WritingGoodExamples/Likethis". Is there any way I can format the way DNN creates its urls so that I can display them in the old way? I don't want to have to create hundreds of redirects...

I've found a fix. If you edit the TabPath row of the Tabs table in your database, then you can format how that pages url is displayed. This only works for existing pages, so you could write a script to update the row in the database for you if you had a similar problem to mine.

Thanks for the reply, Bruce. I've written a couple of functions to deal with the problem.

Firstly, the tab path formatting function:

-- =============================================
-- Author:        Stefan Benjamin
-- Create date: 02/11/2009
-- Description:    Create a formatted TabPath for records
-- =============================================
ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[formTabPath]
(
    -- Add the parameters for the function here
    @TabId int
)
RETURNS varchar(max)
AS
BEGIN
    -- Declare the return variable here
    DECLARE @TabPath varchar(max) = ''
    DECLARE @Level int = (SELECT [Level] FROM dbo.TabsCopy WHERE TabId = @TabId)
    DECLARE @TabName varchar(max)
    DECLARE @ParentId int
   
    -- Add the T-SQL statements to compute the return value here
    WHILE @Level >= 0
    BEGIN
        SET @TabName = (SELECT TabName FROM dbo.TabsCopy WHERE TabId = @TabId)
        SET @ParentId = (SELECT ParentId FROM dbo.TabsCopy WHERE TabId = @TabId)
        SET @TabPath = dbo.StripPunctuation(@TabName) + @TabPath
        SET @TabId = @ParentId
        SET @Level = @Level - 1
    END
   
    -- Return the result of the function
    RETURN @TabPath

END

Secondly, my function to strip punctuation from tab titles, change spaces to dashes and add the "//" before each level:

-- =============================================
-- Author:        Stefan Benjamin
-- Create date: 02/11/2009
-- Description:    Strips punctuation from string and replaces spaces with dashes
-- =============================================
ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[StripPunctuation]
(
    -- Add the parameters for the function here
    @TabName varchar(max)
)
RETURNS varchar(max)
AS
BEGIN
    -- Declare the return variable here
    DECLARE @LevelName varchar(max)

    -- Add the T-SQL statements to compute the return value here
    SELECT @LevelName = REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(@TabName,',',''),'.',''),'''' ,''),'!', ''),'&', 'and'),' ', '-')

    -- Return the result of the function
    RETURN '//' + @LevelName

END
 

Hope this helps people :)