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Hello, I have been using expression engine for some time now and have the opportunity now to restructure an older site of mine.

I have 4 sections.
They are:
*  Home
* About
* Archives
* Contact

Each one of these sections has a custom designed ‘index’ page.
I want to publish to the four sections as ‘blogs’ as there will be a ton of posts for each.
The snag i have encountered is as follows.

Keeping in mind that i have already removed index.php using htacess AND have added the names of each of my template groups to the following line in htacess.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 ^(Home|About|Archives|Contact|P[0-9]{2,8}) [NC]

How can i have each template group display a custom index page while at the same time displaying the entries(aka articles, aka ‘pages’) without adding an ‘article’ template?

To recap,
right now I have index pages for each of the sections.
When An entry is clicked, i must use a template group called ‘article’ or something like it which will display my ‘content’ with a universal style for all interior pages.

how can i get this format to work

<a href="http://www.domain.com/about/my-first-entry">http://www.domain.com/about/my-first-entry*</a>

to display an interior style template for each of my newly added pages?

when only this one is working at the moment

<a href="http://www.domain.com/about/article/my-first-entry">http://www.domain.com/about/article/my-first-entry</a>

Help much appreciated, and since my last post I addressed Lisa - and she likes to whistle - I’ll ask.. Any ideas? Im thinking it must be a mod_rewrite but i can’t seem to get it to work..

Cheers, Thanks…

[Moderator Edit: Moved to How-To Forum]

First off, why exactly do you need to remove the /article/ ?

Now assuming you have good reasons, you could use the index.php template within each weblog group with some conditionals and embed the needed templates like:

{if segment2==""}
 {embed="embeds/page-index"
  weblog="Home"
  page_title="Home Sweet Home"
}

{if:else}
{embed="embeds/page-article"
  weblog="{segment1}"    // Or just hardcode it in each template group
  article="{segment2}"
}
{/if}

For demonstration purposes I called templates in the template group “embeds”, you can choose anything you want. Also you

In the embeded templates you just make up a page-index template and an “page-article” template.

In your page-article template use something like

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{embed:weblog}"}
   <h1>{title}</h1>
   {body}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

It should still pick up the right article from the url since you called it as an embed.

Hope this helps

lemonman, have you looked at the new Pages module?

Thanks, The segment conditional doesnt really work out.. I thinks it’s due to my mod_rewrites.
Are you saying that i should add this to index.php somewhere?

Here’s what failed when I typed ‘www.domain.com/about/article’

{if segment2!="" AND segment3!=""}
   <h2>Article</h2>
<p>{/if}

Lisa, the pages module doesn’t show up!!
I downloaded the latest version of EE and upgraded and it wasn’t included..

Are you sure that you are downloading a licensed version of EE and not EECore?

I was pretty sure.. Actually I realize now, I uploaded EE core on top of my 1.5.2! In ‘my download area’ I am only given the option To download ExpressionEngine Core.

We have purchased commercial licenses for all installations of EE as required by the EE Docs.
I cannot see updates for commercial license or ‘Full Versions’...

looks like it wasn’t renewed as I was told ..
i trust ill get the pages module now…
cheers Lisa.

If you scroll down, do you see a list of your expired licenses? If not, you may be logged in with the wrong username, though it does appear you should have some expired licenses showing there.  They should have a renew link, though. =)

I see that in the pages module, it wont work if you have removed index.php (or at least it doesn’t for me)

arghlgh…

Ah well. Its Friday.

Uh, huh? I remove index.php and the Pages module works extremely well. =) If you want to post more information I’d be happy to help.