On our website, we have a menu, that then leads users to the page. For example one of the menu items goes to: https://www.salinapubliclibrary.org/programsservices/join/friends
How would I make that link just a direct link to https://www.salinapubliclibrary.org/friends
rather than have it show the menu path that it is taking?
Is that possible?
(We do that with non-menu items, just wondering since this is part of our menu if that can be done.)
Hi melanie-h
This is pretty Joomla feature ( links generation ) you can use anyway a 301 redirect adding it to .htaccess file
No way to do this within Joomla?
You could use an extension to optimise the url - like sh404sef but as Pavit suggested I would use the htaccess instead as it will be simpler
Cheers
Paul
My current link within the site is: https://www.salinapubliclibrary.org/programsservices/join/friends
I'd like anyone with this link: (a simpler one) https://www.salinapubliclibrary.org/friends .... for it to take them to the above link with that information.
So in .htaccess file I can point https://www.salinapubliclibrary.org/friends even though it doesn't really exist to go to https://www.salinapubliclibrary.org/programsservices/join/friends
Is this correct?
Redirect https://www.salinapubliclibrary.org/friends https://www.salinapubliclibrary.org/programsservices/join/friends
Place it at the bottom of .htaccess?
I'm getting a 404 Error.
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
Redirect 301 /https://www.salinapubliclibrary.org/friends https://www.salinapubliclibrary.org/programsservices/join/friends
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*)$ https:/salinapubliclibrary.org/%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
Hi melanie-h
There was a type error in my post above
it should be
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
Redirect 301 https://www.salinapubliclibrary.org/friends https://www.salinapubliclibrary.org/programsservices/join/friendsRemove the first slash from first url
or it could be also
Redirect 301 /friends https://www.salinapubliclibrary.org/programsservices/join/friends
I had tried taking it out... but still didn't have any luck earlier.
Tried again. Here's what I have.
I still get 404 error on the https://www.salinapubliclibrary.org/friends
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
Redirect 301 https://www.salinapubliclibrary.org/friends https://www.salinapubliclibrary.org/programsservices/join/friends
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*)$ https:/salinapubliclibrary.org/%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
pavit
I've updated it.
pavit
Odd, I was in .htaccess but i was editing from my webhost. Apparently the data wasn't saving, despite saving.
I see it now.
Thank you. I appreciate the help.