using SiteUrls.config to make Urls Human Friendly

If you want to, you can create a rule in your SiteUrls.config file that will allow your pages to be accessed with a specific Url that you create.

It is really simple, you just need to first find the actual tabid of the page that you want to create a nice Url for, then change SiteUrls.config to add a new rewriter rule. In the latest versions of DNN you can make this change in Host Settings.

So, if you have a tab that hosts the forums for support, you might want to have people access it like this:

http://www.snapsis.com/Support.aspx , then I would create the rule as follows:

LookFor >>   .*/support.aspx[\?]?(.*)?

SendTo  >>    ~/default.aspx?tabid=601&$1

The codes at the end of the LookFor rule capture any Querystring that is on the Url and transfer those to the Url it sends to.

Well actually SiteUrls.config is the config file for DNN's FriendlyUrls, but I know what you mean.

Href Exchanger or PageBlaster can change the links in the output of your page so that they match with the FriendlyUrls used to access your pages.

HrefExchanger does it automatically by using the Page Name and PageBlaster lets you specify it explicitly.

I still think using any tool to automatically changes the URL for a tab includes some risk. Once that URL is cached or crawled by Google and you have to change it for some reason you will see tons of errors in your logs. I had that in the past when I used some of those tools on a site and had to write some code to send a 'permanently moved' to Google to get the logs clean.

The hype that is going on about friendly url's will damage your site more then you want if you change something. That is the reason why I stick with the default TabId url in Dotnetnuke.

Using the SiteUrls.config, is there any way to create a lookfor/sendto pair that will re-write a request such as domain.com/* to www.domain.com/*  adding the www ?

SiteUrls.config can't do a 301 redirect, but here is a way to do it:

301 redirect fow www host

I greatly appreciate the assitance, however when I copy the code into my ascx skin - the skin won't load.
Is there anything else that I need to do?
thank you again,
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