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I am trying to understand the URL structure in EE2.  I understand the URL structure (http://www.something.com/templateGroup/templateName).

My question is, why am I able to type in any string after the template group segment or template name and the page still loads? For example, I can type in the following (http://www.something.com/templateGroup/templateName/someRandomText) or (www.something.com/templateGroup/someRandomText) and the page still loads.

Shouldn’t I get some sort of error??  It’s strange because if a user takes out the template name, the default index page loads without the proper entry_id causing it to load without the information.

[Mod Edit: Moved to the EE 2 Technical Support forum]

Hi Danny and welcome to the forums 😊

EE gives you the flexibility to deal with this yourself and define what you want to happen.

The first thing you can do is turn on Strict URLs

What I do myself is use the parameter require_entry=“yes” This parameter tells the channel tag that it should expect the URL to contain a valid entry ID or a valid URL title.

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" require_entry="yes" limit="1"}
{if no_results}
{redirect="404"}
{/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Does that help?

Yes, that makes much more sense.  Thank you very much!

Hey Danny,

Glad to see John Henry was able to lend a hand! If you have any more questions, please post again!

Thanks.