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    • TikiWIki SEF links

    Posted by Thomas Despoix posts: 54 France

    I'm looking for an SEF solution to TikiWiki. While browsing the web, I could anly find an unmaintained unofficial mod called TikiURLtInstall and some internal resources like SEFURLs and SEFURLsDev...

    I was wandering if ever I was missing something or if SEF internal feature had suprisingly never been envisaged by core developpers?

    Any info on that issue would be much appreciated.

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    Posted by Thomas Despoix posts: 54 France

    > Any info on that issue would be much appreciated.

    Still no admin experience to share on that point ?

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    Posted by Thomas Despoix posts: 54 France

    > AFAIK, the .htaccess file included with the Tiki archive includes the necessary rewrite mods to produce SEF URLs.

    You're partially right. The .htaccess file makes Tiki understand SEF links,

    as you used in on your own portal
    http://twbasics.keycontent.org/tikiwiki+for+smarties
    as I used on mine
    http://mediboard.org/public/Mediboard


    What I want is TikiWiki to produce SEF wikilinks. I guess only a Smarty filter configuration could help me that way.

    Yet I'm very surprised this unavoidable feature in not available out of the box as in most CMSs.

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    Posted by Thomas Despoix posts: 54 France

    > AFAIK, the .htaccess file included with the Tiki archive includes the necessary rewrite mods to produce SEF URLs.

    Anyway, thanks for your answer Rick.

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    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee posts: 4656 Japan

    > What I want is TikiWiki to produce SEF wikilinks. I guess only a Smarty filter configuration could help me that way.
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    > Yet I'm very surprised this unavoidable feature in not available out of the box as in most CMSs.

    I think the explanation for that — and sorry for the nasty surprise btw — is that Tiki's raison d'etre is, or was originally, more in the area of community collaboration/communication, where SEF links are not as important as they are for sites for which good search returns are a priority. That said, the Tiki sites I'm involved with haven't had any particular problem showing up pretty well in searches, I guess due to site content more than technical details.

    -- Gary

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    Posted by Thomas Despoix posts: 54 France

    > I think the explanation for that — and sorry for the nasty surprise btw — is that Tiki's raison d'etre is, or was originally, more in the area of community collaboration/communication, where SEF links are not as important as they are for sites for which good search returns are a priority. That said, the Tiki sites I'm involved with haven't had any particular problem showing up pretty well in searches, I guess due to site content more than technical details.

    I can understand that, here are a few comments though :

    • Why would an .htaccess file to understand SEF links be provided if the portal could not produce any?
    • SEF links are actually more readable and much easier to manipulate even for humans!
    • Serch engines optimisation is based on both content (mandatory (!) and technical details. I really believe both approaches are complementary


    I'm a bit disappointed (frustrated actally) by the lack of such a standard feature... frown

    Anyway, thanks for your feedback.

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    Posted by xainoo posts: 2

    > I'm looking for an SEF solution to TikiWiki. While browsing the web, I could anly find an unmaintained unofficial mod called TikiURLtInstall and some internal resources like SEFURLs and SEFURLsDev...
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    > I was wandering if ever I was missing something or if SEF internal feature had suprisingly never been envisaged by core developpers?
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    > Any info on that issue would be much appreciated.

    I'm looking for SEF in tikiwiki too!

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    Posted by SEWilco posts: 26

    There is a test patch which emits SEF URL links. It needs examination by a developer. A configuration option to enable/disable it is needed. It works on the Smarty output level to convert href="..." from *.php links to the .htaccess supported SEF URLs. I also added a "dirlink" to .htaccess so a directory of external links now creates SEFURLs to make it easier for web crawlers to also follow the external links.

    http://dev.tikiwiki.org/tiki-view_tracker_item.php?itemId=722&trackerId=5&show=view

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