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Hi, I want my URLs to be home/articles/name-of-blog-entry instead of this:

http://jamesabbottdd.com/articles/view/test_entry_4

I want the “view” part of the URL to be gone. My template looks like this:

{exp:channel:entries channel="articles" limit="5" status="open | Featured Top Story | Top Story"}
   <li><a href="http://{title_permalink=">{title}</a></li>
{/exp:channel:entries}

When I try to use

title_permalink="articles"

title_permalink="articles/view"

the article that is being linked to doesn’t appear.

How do I fix this?

Thanks, James

Is ‘view’ the name of a template inside the ‘articles’ template group?  If so, you could rename it to ‘index’.  Then you can just use ‘title_permalink=“articles”’.

Otherwise, you’ll need to adjust your .htaccess rewite code.

James,

Does carvingCode’s advice help?

Also try the following. You will need to adjust slightly for EE2 with correct tags

EE Wiki : Cruft Free URLs

Hi,-

thanks for the replies but I’m not quite through with this yet.

Is ‘view’ the name of a template inside the ‘articles’ template group?  If so, you could rename it to ‘index’.  Then you can just use ‘title_permalink=“articles”’.

Yes, it is the name of the template through which individual blog entries are rendered. I already have an “index” template there, and that template renders the articles index page:

http://jamesabbottdd.com/articles

For that reason, it doesn’t seem to me that I can change “view” to “index” - these are 2 different templates each with a separate role.

I have a similar issue with the category URLs. Another template I have in the same template group is “page”. This gives me URLs like:

http://jamesabbottdd.com/articles/page/category/css3

Whereas I’d like it to be:

http://jamesabbottdd.com/articles/categories/css3

Thanks,
James

For that reason, it doesn’t seem to me that I can change “view” to “index” - these are 2 different templates each with a separate role.

If there is a valid url_title in segment_3 EE will only show that particular entry. This works: http://jamesabbottdd.com/articles/test_entry_4

That said, this is a complex and potentially confusing area. My suggestion would be to read up on it a bit: there’s more than you ever wanted to know about EE’s url structure here.