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[joomla] SEO/SEF - Do I need an extension to name my own URL for Joomla 1.5.23?

Scott Wolpow scott at wolpow.com
Fri Aug 5 10:56:28 EDT 2011


You do not need case for SEO and you should only have lowercase in urls.

Scott Wolpow

On 8/5/2011 10:36 AM, David Roth wrote:
> I wasn't sure if that can be done for the links to the RSFORM Pro, 
> which is mostly what I need this for.
>
> I was able to fill in an alias and it worked which is great. However, 
> the alias gets translated to all lower case.
>
> Any suggestions to be able to keep the alias case sensitive? Thanks!
>
> David Roth
>
> On Aug 5, 2011, at 8:07 AM, Helvécio da Silva wrote:
>
>> Isn't it enough to rename the aliases of your 
>> sections/categories/articles?
>>
>> 2011/8/5 David Roth <davidalanroth at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:davidalanroth at gmail.com>>
>>
>>     It's been a while since I've had to do this with Joomla. The
>>     friendly URLs are fine and working in Joomla 1.5.23, but I have a
>>     need to name my own URL for a few pages. Such as
>>     domain.com/whitepaper <http://domain.com/whitepaper> instead of
>>     whatever friendly URL Joomla would assign to it.
>>
>>     In an early version of Joomla, before 1.5, I think I had to
>>     install an extension to do this. And if I remember correctly, as
>>     Administrator I was able to put in the desired URL path of my own.
>>
>>     I've looked around and can't find the discussion on this I need.
>>     I know about renaming htaccess.txt to .htaccess, but I don't
>>     believe before I actually edited the .htaccess file to put in my
>>     own URL name.
>>
>>     I'm fuzzy on what htaccess.txt actually does now, because I still
>>     had it off and with the SEO Friendly URL set to 'yes' it was
>>     coming up with URLs based on the title of the articles all it's
>>     own. Thanks!
>>
>>     David Roth
>>
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