Shortening of url

[KristianK]

Hey there Contao community!

Is there any way to shorten the very ugly url's in contao?

i.e. http://my-domain-name/index instead of http://my-domain-name/index.php/index.html

This is very important for me, beause of user-friendliness

[jan.theofel]

Hi,

sure there is. You have to rename .htaceess.default in the root directory to .htaccess (for the rewrite rules) and then Settings/Front end configuration/Rewrite URLs

Jan

[Ruud]

You can also get rid of the .html suffix. It is also a setting made at the settings page and a change in the .htaccess file. Instructions on how to change the htaccess file are in the bottom of the file itself.

[KristianK]

Ok, thank you - I'll try that

[KristianK]

Hi again!

I have tried to do what you said and have altered the settings in the backend, but I can't seem to figure out how to get the mod_rewrite to work :?

I have done as you said jan.theofel, but it does not work. Should I alter something in the .htaccess file?

[Ruud]

There is one thing you need to check... Mod_rewrite is an Apache module which is not available for IIS. If you are on IIS there is another method, but it takes some more effort.

This is something I copied from my own post here:

To get URL rewrite working you could look at: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2504

I happen to have solved this problem with TYPOlight on an IIS server. First off; IIS does no rewriting of its own. Or at least not that I know of, so just changing the .htaccess and the rewrite switch will not help you much!

You need to install an isapi module for that. I used Ionic's Isapi Rewrite Filter. When you have that filter installed (follow their instructions) then you need to construct a version of the .htaccess file that the rewriter will understand (it will not use the existing .htaccess files)

The file I made is called IsapiRewrite4.ini:

# IsapiRewrite4.ini
#
# TYPOlight Rewrite URL
#
 
#RewriteLogLevel 5
RewriteRule ^(/?index\.php.*)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(/?preview\.php.*)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(/?)(.*\.html)$ $1index.php/$2 [L]

#RewriteRule (.*css)$ $1 [I,L]
#RewriteRule (.*xml)$ $1 [I,L]
#RewriteRule (.*js)$ $1 [I,L]
#RewriteRule ^/(?!index.php)(?!tl_files)(?!system)(?!plugins)(?!templates)(?!typolight)(?!contao)(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [I,L]

There are no guarantees that my file will work, but at least it gives you an almost complete method as to how to get this working!

ps, also I am not sure what IIS server I did this on. That means that this method might only work for some IIS versions. Additionally; it was for an earlier TYPOlight version so the htaccess for contao may have changed. I did include contao into the rules I posted above.

This was written for an older Contao version. The rewrite rules might need some adjusting.

[KristianK]

Thank you, but I am currently running apache 2.2.8 so that is unfortunately not the problem :/

EDIT: FYI I'm getting a 404 error - not "page not found"

[Ruud]

Can you test if mod_rewrite itself is installed correctly.

[KristianK]

It seems that it is, because I can easily remove the ".html" extension withour any trouble. But when I remove the "index.php" it gives me this error :/ (Sorry I didn't mention this in the earlier post)

[jan.theofel]

Hello,

It seems that it is, because I can easily remove the ".html" extension withour any trouble. But when I remove the "index.php" it gives me this error :/ (Sorry I didn't mention this in the earlier post)

Getting rid of ".html" is a Contao thing, not a rewrite thing. As your hoster if mod_rewrite is active and if you can use it inside your .htaccess file.

Jan

[KristianK]

That seemed to be the problem Thank you!

To anyone else having this "problem" here is what I did:

• Edit the settings to rewrite urls (under settings -> Front end konfiguration)[/*:2vt1q16u]
• Edit the .htaccess.default to .htaccess[/*:2vt1q16u]
• Make sure .htaccess is enabled on your server (which is NOT the case on AppServ!)[/*:2vt1q16u]