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readingdancer
Posted: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 4:17:34 PM

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Hi All,

One of my clients has asked how he can create URL's without the .ASPX extension, I assume this is probably something easy that I should already know. But, I don't Shhh

I.e. We would like the following URL to work:

http://www.ava.co.uk/products


Which as you will see if you click on it, you currently get a 404 error.

Where as:

The Agency Software products page is where I want it to go.

The reason for this is the client is looking doing off line advertising, radio etc and hence wants short easy to remember URL's, it's not often you hear a radio advert giving you a URL with .aspx at the end :)

Thanks All,

Chris

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drobar
Posted: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 4:27:47 PM

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Joined: 9/8/2006
Posts: 2,020
Location: MA, USA; Cambridge, UK
You're looking for 'directory urls'... search the forum for lots of info and a few things to keep an eye out for. The web.config setting is:
Code:
<add key="umbracoUseDirectoryUrls" value="true" />


Alternatively, url rewriting might be an option. http://forum.umbraco.org/yaf_postst8320_Clean-URLs.aspx, for instance.

cheers,
doug.
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sewen
Posted: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 4:29:54 PM

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Joined: 2/16/2009
Posts: 1
Location: Sweden
Hi Chris,

Check this page in the Umbraco Wiki:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Umbraco/FAQ#How_could_I_Use_DirectoryUrls.3F

I think that might be what you are looking for.

/Fredrik
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readingdancer
Posted: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 4:33:54 PM

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Location: Reading, UK
Thank you both for your lightning fast replies!

Best regards,

Chris
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warren
Posted: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 4:36:24 PM

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Location: Benfleet, Essex, UK
Well I will contribute my answer to the mix of this.

Ismail did a nice step by step tutorial on how to setup extensionless URL's with Umbraco
http://forum.umbraco.org/yaf_postst4312_umbracoUrlAlias--extensionless-URLs.aspx#21255

Warren :)
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raly
Posted: Monday, May 18, 2009 9:37:24 PM

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Joined: 4/15/2009
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Location: Aarhus, Denmark
Back in January I made a blog post where I tell how to do it in both IIS 5 and 6

http://lynggaard.nu/2009/01/even-nicer-urls-in-umbraco/
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