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I’d really like to have a very short url on one section of my site.  Preferrably something like the following:

mysite.com/my-weblog-entry

I’ve attempted to check the first url segment in my index template but ee is looking for the template group before checking the segment - resulting in a 404 since the first segment is a weblog entry, not a valid template group.

Is there any way I can get this sort of structure on my site?

Interesting requirement. Easy enough to do for specific templates/pages but can’t think of a way to do it for dynamic entries. Interested to see if someone has a solution.

You could mess around a bit with a .htaccess file and internally redirect it to a specific group/template.

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/group/template/$1 [L]

Of course this will need to be edited to account for your other pages (if you have any) since this will redirect all the requests to that specific template (direct file/directory access excluded).

Greetz,
Wouter

Thanks Wouter, I’m going to give your idea a try.