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11/21/2009 12:27 AM
 

Yes, it sounds like there is a UI bug in there somewhere.  I'll check it out and see if I can find what is wrong.

 
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11/21/2009 1:01 AM
 

That's not exactly how it all works.

THe Url Rewriting means that you can have a page called 'burgerking' : but this will resolve only to a particular DNN page - it won't rewrite the restid/ source/ etc parts to the url.

If you replace the Url value in the page settings, this doesn't actually replace the url.  All this function does in DNN is submit that url when you click on the 'burger king' page in the DNN menu.  If you request 'burgerking' directly, it doesn't show the url you inserted, it will just resolve to a (probably) empty page.

The Url Master module has an option to change this default DNN behaviour by doing a 301 or 302 redirect to the inserted url when you request the 'burgerking' url, but this is not the same thing as rewriting the page as I think you want to do.

 
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11/21/2009 2:01 AM
 

Thanks for the explanation. I'm still not clear -- what is the best way to have a link such as www.mybitesite.com/burgerking? You can see this working in production, by clicking on the link. The server is configured for wildcard extensions, but does not have the Url Master module installed. As you can see, it properly resolves to the correct url, but we want it to keep the short url name. I thought that since this was working properly, we could set it up in Url Master, and it would keep the short url. Basically, we want a short url without aspx that does not resolve to the long url -- what is the best way to accomplish this?

 
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11/21/2009 2:07 AM
 

Well, that links resolves, but only through a redirect.  A redirect from a short url to a long one has little SEO benefit (if any).  You can configure the Url Master module to do the same things as DNN is doing (redirect from the url to the page) but you're not going to be able to setup the url to work the way you expect.  The problem you have is that you need to rewrite extra information into the url, and there's no construct to do that.

 
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11/21/2009 2:58 AM
 

I understand. We're not particularily concerned about SEO for this feature - as we will only be providing the short url names for specific clients. But, the problem is that while it works in production (without Url Master), it does not work on my dev machine (which has Url Master). With the same setup, instead of resolving properly, I get an empty module -- whereas the production site properly displays the \burgerking page.

 
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