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I’m sure this is probably simple but can someone tell me how to do this?

so I want

index.php/template_group/article/114

to be

index.php/template_group/article/url_title

I also want to remove index.php from the url if possible. If anyone can explain the easiest way to do this it would be greatly appreciated!

I have read you can do it with the .htaccess file but not sure about how to create this on a Mac.

Thanks

<a href="http://{entry_id_path=template_group/article}">{title}</a>

will give you index.php/template_group/article/114

<a href="http://{url_title_path=template_group/article}">{title}</a>

will give you index.php/template_group/article/my_article_name

See the Wiki article for .how to create a .htaccess file, the “exclude” method is probably the esaiest -http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Remove_index.php_From_URLs/#Exclude_List_Method

Thanks, the url path is now correct, even though I was using permalink=”... for the links - the news blog was showing the URL title but other blogs were showing the number. Any idea why this was happening?

Can’t get the .htaccess file to work for some reason.

Just realised, page urls still work if i remove ‘index.php’ from the address, but it still shows the index.php by default. Any idea how to get round this?

As long as you have the right .htaccess file, and you remove index.php from Admin ›  System Preferences ›  General Configuration Name of your site’s index page, you should be OK.

Does that help?

Have tried removing index.php from ‘Name of your site’s index page’ but this didn’t work. Still comes up by default in the URL

How are you building your links?

Good point - I think I will need to go through and change these!

Thanks for the help

Glad to see Sue was able to help. Please post again as needed.