Pretty URLs

GreenGiant

I have a category which when visited uses the following URL structure:

/category-name

but when I view a post inside that category the URL is:

/discussion/224/post-name

I would have expected it to be:

/category-name/224/post-name

hgtonight

Welcome to the community!

You didn't really ask a question, but that is how Vanilla is organized.

GreenGiant

Sorry! Yer I guess my question originally was if that was default behaviour or if there was a setting I missed to set pretty URLs ala Wordpress admin.

If not any decent plugins to do so?

Bleistivt

I don't know of any.
Yes, the URL structure is different from wordpress, but I'd argue, that the URLs are already pretty the way they are. (Assuming you have the $Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] set to true)

Forum content is dynamic. With your proposed URL structure, moving a discussion to a different category would break its URL and renaming a category would break the URLs of all discussions of that category.

JasonBarnabe

Renaming a discussion doesn't break the URL, so I don't see why moving a discussion or renaming the category would. The slugs do not affect what discussion is loaded.

But yeah, Vanilla just doesn't do it that way at the moment.

Bleistivt

@JasonBarnabe you're right. @GreenGiant suggested one where the ID ist still in the URL.

I guess it could be done as a plugin by overriding DiscussionUrl() and using the 404 handler. One would have to make sure it doesn't clash with controller names, though.

snooty

@Bleistivt said:
I don't know of any.
. (Assuming you have the $Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] set to true)

I dont see that in the config file. Am I missing something? Or maybe need new glasses? Found all the $Configuration['Garden'] code, but not ['RewriteUrls']

Oops, I think I'm commenting in the wrong place. I have v2.2.1

River

@snooty said:

@Bleistivt said:
I don't know of any.
. (Assuming you have the $Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] set to true)

I dont see that in the config file. Am I missing something? Or maybe need new glasses? Found all the $Configuration['Garden'] code, but not ['RewriteUrls']

Oops, I think I'm commenting in the wrong place. I have v2.2.1

Snooty, please take a look at this https://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/220157/#Comment_220157

you can always add statements to config.php if you don't see the part on the left hand side of the = in your config.php or modify the part on the right side of the =

you might want to skim through all the questions if you are new to this game:
https://vanillaforums.org/discussion/28420/frequently-asked-questions

as well as here:

http://docs.vanillaforums.com

snooty

Thanks much River, will do.

snooty

Thanks for the help River. Created: $Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] and set it to true, URL's are "pretty" now. Although I prefer to call them "SEO friendly" or "human friendly".