Format Blog URL Cancel

1. Garth

   

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   13 May 2009
   18 Jun 2009

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   Is there a way to format the URL for the details post?
   
   Particularily, I am looking to strip the date (e.g. /09-06-18/) fromt he URL.
   
   Thanks!
   G!
2. Georgi

   

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   28 Oct 2016
   18 Jun 2009

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   Hi Garth,
   
   Yes, this is completely possible. Sitefinity is well optimized for SEO purposes and making the URLs as friendly as possible.
   Please open the web.config file and locate the following code:
   

   <cmsEngine defaultProvider="Generic_Content">

   <providers>

   <clear/>

   ...

   <add name="Blogs"  urlRewriteFormat="Publication_Date]/[Title].aspx"   urlDateTimeFormat="yy-MM-dd" ...

   
   Note the urlRewriteFormat property. If you set it to [Title] only for example, then only the Title field will form the url of the blog posts.
   
   Best wishes,
   Georgi
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3. Garth

   

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   18 Jun 2009

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   Hi Georgi,
   
   Thanks for this! It will work for me for the time being, but, if I am not mistaken this will make the change site wide... there is no way to set this per blog?
   
   Garth!
   
   
4. Georgi

   

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   19 Jun 2009

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   Hello Garth,
   
   Yes, this will work for the global blog module. Unfortunately there is still no way to have a different UrlRewriteFormat for the different blogs.
   There is actually a trick you might try - add a different blog provider. The provider itself could have a different UrlRewriteFormat. Please check the User Manual -> Working with Modules -> Customizing modules -> Adding additional provider. Then you can separate the different blogs in different providers.
   
   I hope this helps!
   
   Kind regards,
   Georgi
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5. Terry Smith

   

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   28 Aug 2009
   02 Sep 2009

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   Hi,
   
   I'm trying to make my Sitefinity blog URLs match an existing blog so that my links are not broken when I roll out the new Sitefinity site.
   
   First, I need the archived post to have dates like .../2009/09/... in the URL. I've set urlDateTimeFormat="yyyy/MM" but the links are generating with .../2009_09/... Is there anything else I can try?
   
   Second, my blog is at /blog/Default.aspx and all the archives are generating URLs of the form /blog/default/.... How can I get rid of the /default/? My goal is a url of the form .../blog/2009/09/page-title.aspx.
   
   Third, my existing blog is FTP'd to my site using blogger and the extensions end in .html. I'm planning to do a permanent redirect in Globl.asax and change all "*/blog/* URLs to have an .aspx extension. Do you agree that this should work?
   
   Thank you!
   Terry
   
6. Ivan Dimitrov

   

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   12 Sep 2017
   02 Sep 2009

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   Hello Terry Smith,
   
   The slash from the date format is replaced with underscore. If we add a slash this will mislead the parser and you will get 404 error.
   
   For the second request - Have you set ArchivePageUrl property of BlogsArchive control? This property should point to a page where you have dropped BlogPosts control.
   
   For the third request - it is better if you create IHttpModule and redirect the posts under BeginRequest.
   
   Sincerely yours,
   Ivan Dimitrov
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