Hi folks

Browsing the beautiful http://www.evolveone80.com.au/home.aspx site that is up for an award, I was struck by the neatness of its URLs.

Is the ifinity URLMaster module still the best way to go - or can it be acheived in DNN5 without a third party module?

Kind regards

Geoffrey

Thanks Chris. That worked. I found the full details on the Venexus site, i.e.

A new feature in DNN 4.7 is the "human friendly urls". Instead of displaying the long URLs with tabid (Example: http://www.domain.com/tabid/123/default.aspx), by adding an attribute to the DNNFriendlyURL provider in your web.config, you can provide URLs using the page name only (Example: http://www.domain.com/Home.aspx). This is great for not only being able to give other people simple URLs to pages on your site, but also for search engine optimization.

To make the change, simple add the following attribute: 

urlformat="HumanFriendly"

to the following line in your web.config:

 <friendlyUrl defaultProvider="DNNFriendlyUrl">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add name="DNNFriendlyUrl" type="DotNetNuke.Services.Url.FriendlyUrl.DNNFriendlyUrlProvider, DotNetNuke.HttpModules" includePageName="true" regexMatch="[^a-zA-Z0-9 _-]"  urlformat="HumanFriendly" />
      </providers>
    </friendlyUrl>

Kind regards

Geoffrey

PS I think the DNN 5 User Guide is really excellent - a model of good documentation

hey all,

urlformat="HumanFriendly" is great.

ifinity is a great 3rd party for great looking urls and seo friendly.

i am developing a web site with dnn for sculptures. i am creating pages with the names of the sculptors.

so i go to my dnn website and i create a new page with the name

sculptor-name-sculptor-surname (with dashes)

 the problem is this:

when i view the page , i see this e.g

www.mysite.com/sculptornamesculptorsurname.aspx

the dashes (-) are gone. but i need them..... because if i have the name without dashes, it is a huge problem for SEO reasons.

is there any way to say to the human friendly provider, no to wipe out the (-) character?

thanks