This is one of my biggest issues with the CE version of Magnolia. It sounds a little bit obsessive, but adding that extra level to our content i.e. /home/content instead of /content can really hurt in the SEO stakes. We rely extremely heavily on SEO to bring customers to our site, so it is definitely a negative for me against the CE version of Magnolia. In particular when most other CMS on the market support this feature out of the box in their "free" editions, then it really is a negative against Magnolia. We would love to buy an EE license for Magnolia, but it is beyond us at this moment in time.
Other comments: - For me using mod_rewrite was out of the picture as it does not completely re-write the content served to our customers. For instance: although the customers address bar says http://mysite/content, links within the document body still say http://mysite/home/content/something_else - Using mod_rewrite is an extra layer of complexity that I do not need to employ with the majority of other CMS solutions out of the box - If the CE version is essentially EE, but limited to a single site, why does it not support the ability to define those rules on the single site definition? Our approach: On the flip side, if you're a Java developer it is fairly easy to hack the CE edition to do what you want. This is what I did and you can see the results at: www.thelawwizard.com. If there is much interest I can probably put together a wiki article on what you need to do to get the CE edition to play ball. It is not a small job and you are obviously running with a fairly heavily customised version of Magnolia. But for us the SEO benefits have already been worth that time investment. I would love to see it possible to configure the single site definition in Magnolia 5. There has been so much time invested in making the STK SEO friendly, yet this simple missing feature really annoys me. cheers, Rob On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Unger, Richard <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Max, > > Another idea might be to call your first page "home". That way the URL > winds up as "http://www.mysite.com/home.html " which I find quite nice. > > Regards from Vienna, > > Richard > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] Im Auftrag von Magnolia Forums (on > behalf of Max Bruchmann) > Gesendet: Sonntag, 22. Jänner 2012 17:40 > An: Magnolia User List > Betreff: [magnolia-user] how to have a website in root > > Hi, > I want to publish my website to the root of my tomcat. I have deployed a > public instance to ROOT and an author instance to /author. > > I defined my Website like this: > > my-site > -sectionA > -sectionB > -articleX > -articleY > > I want to publish website so that it's accessible like this > > http://localhost:8080/ > http://localhost:8080/sectionA.html > http://localhost:8080/sectionB.html > http://localhost:8080/sectionA/articleX.html > http://localhost:8080/sectionA/articleY.html > > I could not figure out how to configure it works like that. > I guess I missed something in the manual, because I think this is a very > common case. I would be very happy if someone could help me out. > > Thanks in advance > > -- > Context is everything: > http://forum.magnolia-cms.com/forum/thread.html?threadId=bb22a3b2-0b05-46d4-b176-03d4dfda8c86 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > For list details, see > http://www.magnolia-cms.com/community/mailing-lists.html > Alternatively, use our forums: http://forum.magnolia-cms.com/ > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > For list details, see > http://www.magnolia-cms.com/community/mailing-lists.html > Alternatively, use our forums: http://forum.magnolia-cms.com/ > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- Rob Blake Co-Founder *The Law Wizard Limited* *www.thelawwizard.com* <http://www.thelawwizard.com/> Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/thelawwizard> | Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/thelawwizard> | YouTube <http://www.youtube.com/thelawwizard> | LinkedIn<http://.www.linkedin.com/company/the-law-wizard-limited> | our Blog <http://www.blog.thelawwizard.com/> *The Ron Cooke Hub, York Science Park, York, YO10 5GE* Developing online legal solutions for the public and lawyers ---------------------------------------------------------------- For list details, see http://www.magnolia-cms.com/community/mailing-lists.html Alternatively, use our forums: http://forum.magnolia-cms.com/ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> ----------------------------------------------------------------
