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I’m having problems with permalinks and reducing duplicate content using EE as a blog.

I want to set up and use the following URL structure:

mydomain.com (index or front page of blog)
mydomain.com/article_title/ (individual blog post)

On each individual blog post I want the comments form to show.

This would be the standard model on a WordPress blog.

What I get is:
mydomain.com
mydomain.com/article_title (but the comments don’t show)
mydomain.com/template/article_title (comments don’t show)
mydomain.com/template/comments/article_title (with comment form)

Obviously I need to cut down the duplicate content.

I understand that in my templates I have a template for the index file.

But how do I get EE to give me “mydomain.com/article_title” and the page being created being the blog post and the comments form?

If anyone can point me to a template that might use this structure, I would appreciate it.

If you are using http://example.com/article_title EE will automatically use the “index” template of the default template group. You simply need to add the comment form to that template (take a look at the comment template to see how it’s done).