I am currently evaluating Hippo CMS for a new project. I have read the documentation and played around with the system, but there is one thing that I don’t know how to solve.
The URLs for the articles in the system should follow this pattern:
/{category}/{subcategory}/any.html
There will be thousands of articles in each subcategory, so it will be required to create several folders for them in the CMS (e.g. based on the year and month).
But I do NOT want to include these additional folders in the URLs. How can I do this?
I am currently evaluating Hippo CMS for a new project. I have read the documentation and played around with the system, but there is one thing that I don’t know how to solve.
The URLs for the articles in the system should follow this pattern:
/{category}/{subcategory}/any.html
There will be thousands of articles in each subcategory, so it will be required to create several folders for them in the CMS (e.g. based on the year and month).
But I do NOT want to include these additional folders in the URLs. How can I do this?
Is there a specific reason why you dislike folders in the URL? In
general, a URL that indicates for example which year and month the
article was in is a good thing. If you don’t want these in the URL,
what else? Assume you have articles with name ‘foo’ in two different
folders. Skipping the folder name in the URL obviously is not possible
since which article to render then for foo.html…you can’t know which
one to render.
Quite soms CMSes use instead of a clean URL an identifier in the URL
or query parameter…that is imho a way uglier URL and doesn’t help
the visitor nor the crawlers to nicely index your website