From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: July 31, 2005
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: MovableType URLs
>
> Leo,
> Hi Leo,
>
> What are the steps to change/tweak Moveable Type,
> so it uses keywords, separated by hyphens in the URLs?
> for example changing:
>
> http://www.sunnythoughts.com/archives/2005/07/thank_you_for_y.html
>
> to:
>
> www.sunnythoughts.com/Thank-You-For-Your.html
>
> or something like that,
> which might be more search engine friendly.
First change the location of all the individual archives to be
in the root. That's part of the Core Setup page in your Weblog
Configuration. Basically change all the location and URL references
to be the root of your site.
Than go to the Archive Files page. The "Archive File Template"
therein is more correctly thought of as the "archive file name
template". Using templating variables, here you can control the
filenames that MT will create. I set mine to:
<$MTEntryTitle dirify="1"$>.html
If you run the risk of duplicate titles, you might want something
like this instead:
<$MTEntryTitle dirify="1"$>_<$MTEntryID pad="1"$>.html
which is what I use out on http://forwardedfunnies.com
That ought to do ya!
Thanks for asking!
Leo
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