Could someone point me in the right direction to clean up my URL for my "home" page?

  • well, there are a few things you could do to shorten the url.
    First: You could move your forum into the root directory if there is no other content (as it looks for me). This removes the /forum/ part from your urls.
    Second: Activate user fiendly urls, you need to follow this guide (but it is in german, didn't found an english one...): Konfiguration von benutzerfreundlichen URLs (SEO-URLs)
    Doing both optimizations you get an url like: www.icecreamonmars.com/board/2-adventure-log/ which is at least a bit shorter ;)

    Last thing you could so is create your own page to get your content on an extra page.
    If you are interested, create a file /forum/lib/page/AdventureLogPage.class.php with the following content:

    After creating the file you need to clean your cache in the ACP, then you can simply call it with www.icecreamonmars.com/forum/index.php?adventure-log/ (without the first two optimisations) or www.icecreamonmars.com/adventure-log/ if you do them ;)

  • Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this, Morik. I really appreciate this and I will try to do this.

    I did have friendly URLs activated before but it makes the links to my EasyMedia galleries break when I activate it.

    Is there any possible way to make the link just appear as "icecreamonmars.com" and nothing else after it but still go to the page I have set up now, like it is?

  • you could embedd your forum into a frame to get that, but i think its bad for your users as they cannot store bookmarks etc...
    If you have problems with easymedia you shold talk to cls-design, they have a very good support and could help you with this problem ;)

  • If it's a matter of being able to hand out a short URL, it'd be an option to do 302 redirect in your server config, from your root domain to whichever URL you want. See this link for a brief discussion on redirecting the root domain to some other location.

  • I did have friendly URLs activated before but it makes the links to my EasyMedia galleries break when I activate it.

    I can help there too.
    You probably forgot to have the htaccess in every application forlder for the rewrite rule, or a summarised version in root with the directories?


    Simple use this (remove what you do not need) and check if you have the exact same directories there.

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