FAQ's

• Q: Does this module mask or rewrite the URLs? Thanks

  A: The Url Master module has three main functions: - the Friendly Url Provider, which changes the standard DNN Urls as they are being generated within the DNN Core and any Third Party Modules. This changes the way they are generated for display on the DNN pages. This is done in the same way the standard DNN Friendly Url Provider works. - The Rewriter, which handles all requested Urls, and rewrites them back into the native format that DNN uses, such as /default.aspx?Tabid=45 - The Redirector, which compares requested Urls with what they should be, and redirects them if they aren't the canonical version for that particular page. I hope that explains it better for you.

• Q: This is with ref to needing custom url provider for some custom modules we have built. How can we accomplish this? We need the url in form www.domain.com/city/Product Presently the url form is www.domain.com/PD.aspx?PID=1234 Pls let us know how we can get this desired behaviour using URL Master 2.5 and how easy is to do this?

  A: You can build a custom url provider to do the Url changes you require. There is a blog and example project to copy from to build custom Url Providers here: http://www.ifinity.com.au/2011/10/26/Build_your_own_Custom_DotNetNuke_Module_Provider_and_start_creating_the_Friendly_Urls_you_need_for_your_SEO_strategy It contains links to the example blog module provider, plus the starter template for building your own.

• Q: Hi: We have built several custom modules and need url rewriting for these. Does your module support custom url generation for custom modules? How can the below example be accomplished with your module? Pls provide snapshots to explain as I would like to see how we would need to configure it. Example: Existing url: http://www.buylandinindia.com/PD.aspx?PID=28 We need something like: http://www.buylandinindia.com/for_sale/Property_Name

  A: Hi, yes, no problem, you can build your own custom extensions to the module. This is available from Version 2.5 of the Url Master module. See more information here : http://www.ifinity.com.au/2011/10/26/Build_your_own_Custom_DotNetNuke_Module_Provider_and_start_creating_the_Friendly_Urls_you_need_for_your_SEO_strategy There is a sample download of source code available as a template to start building your own module here: http://www.ifinity.com.au/Products/Free_Downloads#StarterProjectInstall Building your own provider is as simple or complex as you want to make it, as it is a compiled solution. They can be first-class DotNetNuke Extensions or just a DLL you drop into your \bin directory. You can either build the logic in as a coded algorithm, use regex, database lookups or anything else. You can build it with a user interface or just make it simple and configure by the web.config.

• Q: Hi. I have a website which is multi language, supported by DNN language module. I want to create various domains like www.mysite.nl, www.mysite.fr, and www.mysite.com and map those to the DNN url that correspond the the language specified in the url. For the site I have set up one portal Reading the info on your website and snowcovered I believe this would be possible. Please can you confirm. Tx. Marc.

  A: Yes, no problem at all. Please see the example site http://url-master.com for a demonstration on how this functionality works.

• Q: does your trial software display a trial license message on web pages? i need to test any proposed purchases to verify that they meet my needs, work as advertised, and do not cause any side effects. however, i could never in a million years run a production website with any kind of trial license message appearing anywhere on the page. thanks.

  A: Hi, If you obtain a trial licence from http://www.ifinity.com.au/Licensing the software will run without trial messages during the trial period. You can purchase the full licence before the end of the period and replace the trial licence (no need to reinstall the software). In this way you can trial out the software without ever showing any messages. Just be sure to obtain your trial licence before switching the software on.

• Q: you mention support for iis 7 - does this include 7.5?

  A: Yes, no problem at all. IIS 7.5 is supported.

• Q: I purchased the single domain license, but I need a multiple domain license. How can I get the 5 domain license without re-purchasing?

  A: Hi, you can purchase domain upgrades direct from iFinity.com.au : http://www.ifinity.com.au/Products/Purchase/Url_Master

• Q: Does you systesm work with Ventrain news module?

  A: Yes, no problems at all.

• Q: Hi, will your module do this: Change the url: http://www.mydomain.com/tabid/112/test.aspx to http://www.mydomain.com/test. This is a landing page I created for users to type in. Now I need it to work for all the variations: http://www.mydomain.com/test, http://mydomain.com/test and www.mydomain.com/test. I was going to do it with "Page Blaster" by Snapsis but they said that I would also have to do this "Keep in mind that in order for the url without a page extension to work, you will have to setup a wildcard IIS script mapping to ASP.Net in the IIS Manager." Would I also have to do this with your module? Do you have a demo that actually works on a website and not a localhost site? Thanks.

  A: Yes, no problem with that Url. You will have to setup the IIS configuration to support it. Please see this article for more information: http://www.ifinity.com.au/Products/Knowledge_Base/Url_Master/topic/Creating+a+Url+with+no+aspx+extension+on+your+DNN

• Q: Can the five domain licence be used on 5 distinct DNN installations?

  A: Yes, you can use the 5 domains on 5 separate installs, or all 5 in one install, or any combination of both.

• Q: With this module are you able to do 301 redirects on PDF / Document Files?

  A: Yes, as long as you map the .pdf extension to the ASP.NET runtime by adding it in as a registered handler through IIS. The process differs for IIS 6/7 but it can be done.

• Q: Hi Looks like a great module. Can I use one standard license on my domain www.mydomain.com and my parent portal dev.mydomain.com, also I am planing to use SSL on my dnn website is URL Master 2.0 working ok with SSL certficats. Thank you

  A: Yes, domain based licences cover all subdomains. SSL settings work with the standard SSL configuration in DNN - SSL Enforced and SSL Enabled switches both work as in standard configuration.

• Q: If we have multiple load-balanced web front end web servers, but only 1 DNN database (instance), does the host license cover that? Can we use the product on development and QA servers (non-production) or do separate licenses have to be installed for those environments. Also we purchased 1.13 host license ($295) on 4/2/2009. What do we need to do to upgrade to 2.0? Thanks. Ken

  A: Yes, the host licence will cover multiple front-end servers - in fact if your web site only has one domain, that's all you would need. You can include test/development/QA domains in your licence keyfile at no extra cost. To upgrade to 2.0 just purchase the upgrade option available here on snowcovered, or through http://www.ifinity.com.au/http://www.ifinity.com.au/Products/Url_Master_Version_Upgrade

• Q: I am migrating a dynamic Cold Fusion site to DNN. A site:domain.com search on Google reveals over 1500 pages indexed. The client is concerned about 301 redirects to maintain Google ranking. Is URL Master going to be a solution for me?

  A: Assuming you can map the coldfusion-extension pages to the ASP.NET runtime (so that .cfm is handled by asp.net), and that you setup all of the redirects to map the old Urls to the new Urls, then yes, it will work for you. I would suggest downloading the software from http://www.ifinity.com.au/Products/Url_Master_DNN_SEO_Urls and setting up some redirects to be sure you can achieve what you need to do.

• Q: Hi there, Can you please tell me if I can use one host license on different servers? Thanks, Hong

  A: No, you will not be able to, unless the servers are part of a webfarm for the one website. If each of your servers has different websites on it, you'll need to licence those websites individually.

• Q: Has iFinity Url Master tested for DNN 5.3?

  A: Yes, it is fully compatible with DNN 5.3

• Q: Hi, If I buy the 5 domain license and then later want to upgrade to the Host License, will you allow an upgrade by paying the $100 difference? Thanks, Kenneth

  A: Yes, of course, you can upgrade between versions at any time by paying the difference.

• Q: Will this work for servers in IIS6? I have old PHP sites built by another developer on another server that we built new DNN sites for. I need to redirect the old php page urls to the new DNN pages. I will have DNS of the domain. Will your module do this?

  A: Yes, you can redirect .php Urls to equivalent DNN pages. The exact method depends on the specific type of .php url, but it can be achieved. IIS6 is no problem, you just have to add in a mapping for the .php extension to point to the asp.net runtime in the IIS configuration.

• Q: Will the module allow me to do these: 1. I want users to be able to enter in personal URLs like www.domain.com/name and get directed to a particular tab. 2. Redirect a subdomain (i.e., name.domain.com) to a page of the parent portal (www.domain.com/name/tabid/128/Default.aspx), or I'm using DNN 5.2

  A: For 1. : yes, you can set up user profile urls so that the users' display name can be used to show a specified user profile page on the site. For 2 : no, this isn't possible.

• Q: How does the upgrades work? is it major upgrades we have to pay for so 1.0 to 2.0 there would be a cost. But if it's was 1.13 to 1.15 it's free?

  A: Yes, all minor upgrades (eg 1.13 to 1.15) are free. Just download the latest install package for the module from the products page at http://www.ifinity.com.au/Products/Url_Master_DNN_SEO_Urls

• Q: We have an old static website that has been up for 5+ years. We assume that our customers have saved URL's for various pages / resources to thier browser favourites list. We would like DNN to be able to resolve these old links by redirecting to the same resource on the new DNN portal. Would this module be suitable for this task?

  A: Yes, the module is suitable for redirecting old urls to the new,equivalent DNN page urls.

• Q: hi, is the friendly folder name specific to a portal alias? so if i have 2 portals on a host, each of the two have 2 portal aliases, and both of them have a page with the same name like: portal 1, alias 1 - www.client1.com/products portal 1, alias 2- client1.mydomain.com/products portal 2, alias 1 - www.client2.com/products portal 2, alias 2 - client2.mydomain.com/products would the /products for both portal 1 and 2 goes their own pages? thanks.

  A: Yes. The correct DNN page for a Url is located by a combination of portal alias and page name. You can safely use the same page name in different portals.

• Q: Hi, I am a little bit confused about licensing. How does it work in load balanced environments. We have multiple DNN installations in a web farm environment. Each of the installations have multiple domains.What kind of license would I require? Thanks

  A: The licences are domain based, or, in the case of the 'host' licence, install based. The product itself is installed at the DNN install level, and each portal on that DNN install needs to be licensed. Web farms do not matter, you just have to put a copy of the licence keyfile on each server in the farm. For example, if you have 5 unique domains on one install, a 5 domain licence will work the best for that Installation. You would upload a copy of the keyfile to each server in the webfarm. If you have 3 domains in one install, and 2 in another, a 5 domain licence would cover each of these installs. For more information, see the licensing FAQ's at http://www.ifinity.com.au/Products/Url_Master_DNN_SEO_Urls/details/FAQs

• Q: Hi, We have a UVG based site with around 1100 videos where each video is based on a particular word. For example the URL for the word "augment" is: http://vocabahead.com/VocabularyVideos/Videos/TabId/59/VideoId/132/Default.aspx We want it to look like: http://vocabahead.com/videos/augment Is there a way your module can go over all the 1100 URL s automatically and replace them with the appropraite friendly name with the corresponding word in it. Regards, Faiza.

  A: Hi Faiza - unfortunately this cannot be done at the present time. The change would be that your urls could look like this: http://vocabahead.com/VocabularyVideos/Videos/VideoId/132.aspx I thought there was an option in the UVG settings to display the video title as part of the Url. So you would get the /augment.aspx on the end. I could be mistaken though.

• Q: A few questions 1) We are hosting our site in a shared environment and do not have access to IIS7 web server. Can we still get extensionless urls? 2) We are using ZLDNN module for content mgmt. Will this module work with ZLDNN seamlessly? 3)Since we have dynamic content and articles is there a provision to set regex expression to generate urls. Can you provide a screenshot on how that will be done?

  A: Here's the answers to your questions. 1) Yes, with IIS7 the changes are made for you at the web.config level, so you don't need access to the web server. 2) I believe the module works with ZLDNN Ok. You might want to download a trial version from http://www.ifinity.com.au/Producst/Url_Master_DNN_SEO_Urls and try it out. I'm confident that you will have no problems, and if you do happen to have problems, they can be resolved. 3) No, you can't use regex expressions to generate urls. The generation of Urls is done at the base DNN Core and/or module level. Any changes in generated Urls done for DNN modules must be done at the module level.

• Q: Hello, 'Best Web Sites' have referred me to you. Our site has /dotnetnuke/ in all 300+ urls on our site. See our site here: http://www.shareandcompareplay.com/dotnetnuke/Home.aspx Is it possible to remove this and still keep our page rank? Also is there a quick way to do this rather than page by page? We also have internal links within the html in our pages, will I need to remove the /dotnetnuke/ from the <a href="/dotnetnuke/page url"> within the html on all pages where internal links appear? Many thanks, Karen

  A: Yes, you can remove the /dotnetnuke/. Presumably this is within the portal alias of your site. You would just have to add a new portal alias without the /dotnetnuke/ and then setup a redirect to use that alias over the one with the /dotnetnuke/ in it. This would work for all Urls in the site. As for replacing all the links, because the redirect would work on the urls, it wouldn't have to be done straight away. My 'Inline Link Master' product (also available on snowcovered) may be able to do this (would need to trial) but it does not fix it at a database level, it replaces the links at runtime. You may also find other products to do a permanent find/replace of the links in the database, but ultimately you may have to update the majority yourself. But I stress you don't have to worry about it straight away as the /dotnetnuke/ version will be redirected.

• Q: Does this module allow for excluding the file extension for individual URLs? Due to other apps on our website we need to have extensions enabled for the overall website, but we need the ability to add Vanity URLs to our site for Sales|Marketing efforts. For example, we would like to be able to utilize URLs as follows: www.mysite.com/currentOffer

  A: Yes, you have individual Urls with no extension while keeping the overall site using an extension. All you have to do is to allow the website to run with 'wildcard extensions'. This is done through IIS settings. Once this is switched on, you can access a /simple type url. If you have the automatic 301 redirect turned on, it will redirect to /simple.aspx, but the main issue for you is that the Url will direct the person to the correct place, allowing you to use the simple url in print and other advertising. This can be done for any page just by omitting the extension, or you can create short urls as redirects for specific pages by creating a new Url in the 'Page Urls' screen.

• Q: I read in the questions and answers you could perfectly setup a 301 redirect from domain.com to www.domain.com. So I assume you can also setup a 301 redirect from domaina.com and www.domainb.com to all redirect to www.maindomain.com ? Is this correct?

  A: Hi, yes, it's possible to redirect any number of domains back to the single, chosen domain. Please see my blog post http://www.ifinity.com.au/Blog/Technical_Blog/EntryId/68/Using-Multiple-Domain-Names-on-a-DotNetNuke-site on this topic, and let me know if you have any questions. -Bruce

• Q: I have a licensing question similar to some already asked - but I am still not clear on this. If I were to buy a hosting licence, could I use this module on a number of different DNN installations, some with multiple domains/portals? Or do I need to buy a separate license for each installation?

  A: The host licence is not a server licence. 1 host licence = 1 DNN install. If you 5 or less portals in an install, you will be better off with domain-based licences (available in 1-domain or 5-domain configurations). A domain based licence is not restricted to a particular install or server, so you can purchase 5 domains and use the domains across 5 installations, or 2 installations, or just the one.

• Q: We're interested in picking up URL Master to complement our DNN installs. However, your host license says "unlimited domains - Single DNN Install". To prevent all our sites from crashing when something goes wrong with one, we maintain multiple domains, but each with their own DNN installation. Would this mean we would have to purchase individual licenses for each even though they are hosted on the same physical machine?

  A: Hi - there is no server licence for the physical server, the licences either work on DNN installs or domain names. Depending on how many separate sites you have, a domain licence may suit. You can use 5 domain licences (the domains don't have to be on the same install) and just use one domain per install.

• Q: Hi, does it work with different languages, our site www.vcomm.be use french dutch and english language. We are using dsl localisator

  A: Hi yes, it does work with multi-langage installs. I have had feedback from some people that they have got it to work with ds localisator (see http://www.ifinity.com.au/Products/Support_Forums/forumid/8/threadid/3285/scope/posts) for more detail.

• Q: If I purchase the single domain license and then decide to buy additonal licenses like the 5 domain or host licnse will I have to pay the full price of will it be prorated?

  A: You can purchase upgrades once you have purchased a single domain licence. These are pro-rated so you end up paying the same amount.

• Q: i would like to have a url like this: mydomain.com/banquet point to a page on my dnn site that might something like this: mydomain.com/Banquet/tabid/2398/Default.aspx can i accomplish that with your module? thanks!

  A: Yes, the module will do this by default. You don't need to do anything but install and enable it. If you want to remove the .aspx extension, and you're on IIS6, there are a couple of other steps, but for IIS7 users it's a standard setup.

• Q: In order for this to work, does the module need to be inserted on every page that I want the url shortened or is it a global setting for all pages? Brian

  A: Brian : you just install the module once at the DNN host level, and it will convert every Url automatically. If you dont' want to have a friendly url on a particular page, then you need to exclude those urls on a case by case basis. The module isn't installed on pages, it installs itself at the root level of the site automatically and becomes part of the host/admin menu. When switched on, it starts converting all the urls on all the portals to friendly urls.

• Q: Can your product change the following urls to one word after the domain name/? http://www1.gloucesterva.info/Visitors/tabid/130/Default.aspx TO http://www1.gloucesterva.info/visitors OR http://www1.gloucesterva.info/ParksandRecreationHome/tabid/281/Default.aspx TO http://www1.gloucesterva.info/pr Thank you!

  A: Easy answer : Yes. The 'visitors' url will be done for you automatically when you install the module. The 'pr' url will need to be entered as a custom url for that page. You also will want to switch off the page extensions.

• Q: Could I use iFinity URL Master 1.13 to give normal DNN URLs a simpler URL like http://www.kxl.com/autosales ?

  A: Yes, that's exactly what the module can do. See the http://www.ifinity.com.au/ site for an example of urls like you wish to see.

• Q: When we convert sites from HTML to DNN, we need to do 301 Redirects from somepage.html to someDNNpage.aspx. It looks like this would be possible, is it?

  A: Hi, yes, you can redirect .html pages to .aspx dnn pages. This is an important feature of the module. This support forum post contains a detailed explanation of the steps : http://www.ifinity.com.au/Products/Support_Forums/forumid/8/threadid/2134/scope/posts

• Q: Hi, We have two installations of DNN - one for our live site (www.MomCheck.com) and one that is a copy of our live site that we use for testing (test.MomCheck.com). May we purchase the single license or do we need to purchase the multi-license package? Thanks so much! Sincerely, Paula Olson

  A: Hi Paula - you only need a single domain licence. Subdomains are not counted as separate domains.

• Q: We have 4 servers: development test staging production Only production is seen by the outside world. The other three are for our internal software and content promotion processes. Can we license your product for the production environment and use it on the non-internet-accessible machines for testing and content promotion purposes? Thanks!

  A: Hi, yes of course, development and test machine licences are provided at no cost with a production licence. Just add the development, test, staging machines to the licence request that you complete after purchasing.

• Q: If I have a friendly URL for a page, will that friendly URL remain in the address bar? What if I have a page that takes querystring parameters to control how the modules inside the page work - is there a way I can have a friendly URL show in the address bar but still get the querystring parameters to the modules so they work right? Thanks!

  A: Hi, yes, the Friendly Url will remain in the address bar. That's what the module does - it both identifies a Page in the DNN Portal based on the name instead of the tabid, and it rewrites parameters passed in 'friendly' format into an ordinary querystring format. Thus mysite.com/page/key/value.aspx becomes (to your modules, but not to the visitor) mysite.com/default.aspx?tabid=xx&key=value. You can download a free trial from http://www.ifinity.com.au/Products/UrlMaster_DNN_SEO_Urls/ and try it out for yourself.

• Q: Hi, I bought a license for 1 domain only. your product is amazing, I love it. The way i'm working is one dnn installation for 1 client. and your bigger package is unlimited for 1 dnn installation. is it possible to have price for unlimited on 1 server ??? With that price i'll speak to my client to have money from them... Best regards Francis

  A: Hi Francis, no there is no server licence; only the host licence provides unlimited installs - but as you already have stated, this is per-DNN install.

• Q: does this module works on dnn 5? thanks.

  A: Hi, Yes, Version 1.13 is DNN 5 Compatible.

• Q: Hi, Can I collapse the default DNN subfolder structure into flat folder structure and also rewrite the name of the web page? For example, I would like to rewrite the URL of existing privacy statement page from http://www.mydomain.com/Home/tabid/37/Default.aspx to something like http://www.mydomain.com/privacy-policy.aspx. Thanks!

  A: With the Url Master module, the privacy and terms pages will automatically reset to home/ctl/privacy.aspx and home/ctl/terms.aspx, so you don't need to do any special rewriting. You can also request them at mydomain.com/privacy.aspx and mydomain.com/terms.aspx. To use these two Urls, you'll need to either ditch the custom skin objects, or just hard code the links into your skin. This is all built-in to the module. With regards to 'collapsing' the subfolder structure; I'm not sure exactly what you mean there, but yes, in general, you can replace the Url of any page with any new Url that doesn't have to have the same number of path separators. So /parent1/parent2/child1.aspx can be replaced with /child.aspx. This will occur automatically for generated links, and any 'old' requests will be 301 forwarded to the 'new' url for you.

• Q: can de module also redirect on user-agent type? i try to redirect for a ingame browser with user-agent (=eve-minibrowser/3.0) so i can show a skin & content that is adapted to the ingame browser.

  A: Hi, currently you cannot redirect based on user-agent. You may have to write a custom component to do this, or look at something which will handle changing the skin for a particaulr user agent, but keeping the same url.

• Q: Hello, Do you know if URL Master is compatible with Snapsis PageBlaster?

  A: Hi, Yes the module is compatible with PageBlaster, with one caveat : you must obtain a trial (or full) licence before using it. If you purchase the product, you'll get a full licence, or you can get free trial licences from http://www.ifinity.com.au/Licensing to test the product out. There are many installations of this product where PageBlaster is also installed.

• Q: Let's say I want a url such as www.nextecgroup.com/hot to direct traffic to www.nextecgroup.com/hot.aspx. Will I be able to do this with this module? Thank you, Brian Villaros NexTec Group

  A: Yes, you can, but you must set up your IIS to accept wildcard extensions. This will allow your website to respond to the /hot path, otherwise you will get an IIS-generated 404 error.

• Q: Can this module be used to set up redirects for pages that don't exist within the DNN website? i.e. I am upgrading a website to DNN and wish to be able to point the old file structure to relevant pages in the DNN site. e.g. : http://www.nameofsite.com/boats/yachts/30/index.htm redirects to http://www.nameofsite.com/boats/tabid/54/Default.aspx

  A: Yes, you can set up redirects for pages that aren't in DNN. In this instance, you would need to setup .htm to be processed by asp.net in the IIS configuration. Then you'll need to remove \.htm from the 'ignoreRegex' setting in the 'advanced regex settings' section of the 'friendly url settings' page. Then, in your 'page urls' page, select the page you'd like to redirect to, and enter a new url : boats/yachts/30/index.htm (include the extension even though it says not to). Make sure the http status is set to 301, and save your changes. Now, when you request the /boats/yachts/30/index.htm, you should be redirected to the boats.aspx page. If you need more assistance, please post on the product support forum at http://www.ifinity.com.au/Products/Support_Forums/. You can also download a free trial from the ifinity.com.au site and try out the redirection.

• Q: Hi, I have read the licencing questions and answers and one thing is still not clear. For the 5 domain licence, can those 5 domains be on different servers or are you saying 5 domains one DNN install?

  A: Hi, yes you can have the 5 domains on separate installations, or all on the one installation.

• Q: I have 2 portals on a single dnn instance www.pokerdiy.com and www.freepokerdir.com. I only want the single license as I only want to run it on www.pokerdiy.com. I got the impression from the questions above that because it installs at Host level I am forced to buy 2 licenses instead of 1, or did I misunderstand? I only want it on PokerDIY.com but I can't split my portals up.

  A: Yes, that is correct. Because the module installs at the host level, you either need a host licence, or you need to licence each portal with a separate domain name. In your case, you would need a licence for both pokerdiy.com and freepokerdir.com. Your best value wiill be a 5 domain licence. You can use the other three domains at any time in the future.

• Q: My question is about licensing. What does "domain" mean ? A portal or a DNS domain ? Thnaks

  A: 'Domain' in terms of the licensing equals the top-level DNS domain name of the website the code is running in. For example test.mysite.com www.mysite.com mysite.com are all one domain as far as the licence is concerned. mysite.com my-site.com my-site.org are all separate domains as far as the licensing is concerned. Whether separate domains are all one alias for a portal, or all separate portals in an installation is no difference. The exception is the host licence, where you purchase a licence for a single DNN installation, then you can use as many portals/portal aliases/domain names as you like. The host licence will not work across two separate DNN installations, though.

• Q: Hello. I installed a trial version and noticed that links within my "Text/HTML" modules are not rewritten. They still show "LinkClick.aspx?tabid=23" etc. Is this normal behavior? I'm afraid that these "bad" links will cause search engines to think we have duplicate content. Thanks in advance for your answer!

  A: Hi, the Url Master program ignores the linkclick urls, and it doesn't replace Urls coded inside Html Text modules. You will have to manually update the Urls to the correct location. You can find the correct location by entering /default.aspx?tabid=23 and seeing where it redirects too. Then copy this value into the Html source. As a general rule with SEO and DotNetNuke, you should not use the LinkClick functionality of DNN unless you absolutely need the link tracking functionality of it. For normal linking between pages of your portal, you should craft up a <a href="/mypage.aspx">My Page</a> style anchor.

• Q: It seems that your module does what I need it to do, however, I want to verify. I'm wanting the ability to redirect a user who types http://mysite.com in their browser to be redirected to http://www.mysite.com .

  A: Yes, you can redirect the mysite.com to www.mysite.com, or from www.mysite.com to mysite.com. You can even redirect from mysite.com to subdomain.mysite.com if you want. It's in the 'Friendly Url Settings' page, under 'Do 301 Redirect to single subdomain?'. Just check the box and type in 'www' as the value.

• Q: Do you provide a source code version?

  A: No, there is no source code version available.

• Q: Hi, does your url master module convert letters in URL's with wedges (like č, ř, ž) to letters without wedges (c, r, z)? It is for the czech language. Thank you for answer.

  A: The answer to your question is yes, and no. The Url Master can't automatically convert č to c, but it will allow you to specify your own Url for a page named with a č character in it. For instance, I might have a page called 'Český Krumlov'. The standard DNN Url would be '%C4%8Cesk%C3%BDKrumlov' - which we all agree is pretty ugly. The Url Master module won't automatically convert the name for you, but with it you can specify a new Url for the page called 'Cesky-Krumlov' using ordinary ASCII characters. This will mean the Urls are clean and tidy. You could also stuff keywords into the Url, like this 'Cesky-Krumlov-City-Information' while still keeping your DNN page name 'Český Krumlov', so that it appears spelt correctly in page menus and links. The important feature is this : with the Url Master software, you can have totally different values for the Url and the Page Name. The Page Name is used in menus and links for the text, but the Url for the menu links is generated by the Url Master. So, in the case of Umlauts and Diacratic characters, you can just specify whatever Url you think works best for the page.

• Q: Hello, Is the module working with multilingual portal ? Is Apollo multi-language and Locopon DSLocalizator supported ? DV FX

  A: Yes, the Url Master module is specifically designed to work with multi-language portals. It moves the language specifiers down to the start of the Url path to give a better Url, which makes the two different language versions of the portal appear cleanly separated : like this domain.com/language/en-us/my_page.aspx and domain.com/language/fr-fr/my_page.aspx DSLocalizator is supported, see http://www.ifinity.com.au/product/support_Forums/ for details. Apollo multi-language is not known, but any module which uses the Friendly Url API in DotNetNuke to generate Url's should work correctly.

• Q: As a hosting provider, I really need an Enterprise/Per-Server license. Do you plan to offer this at some point?

  A: Yes, the Host-server licence is now available. This allows for unlimited portals/domains installed in a single DNN instance.

• Q: I read the previous "license" question but am still unclear. I have a DNN installation with 8 portals. I only need URL rewriting on one of these portals. If I'm reading the prior answer correctly, I would need to purchase 8 licenses. If so, this is a real show-stopper. Can you clarify? Thanks!

  A: You can purchase a host licence, which is the best value for 8 portals (at only $37/portal). However, you can't use the Url Master for a single portal - it affects all portals on the DNN installation. This shouldn't matter though, because all portals will receive the benefits of the Url Master module, even if the portal doesn't specifically use some of the more advanced features.

• Q: Many URL solutions create folders in the system to receive the requests they want to redirect. Does yours do this too, or is it an ISAPI filter?

  A: No, there are no folders created to receive requests, and no, it's not an ISAPI filter. You don't need access to the IIS configuration to install. It's a DNN module that installs via the 'Install Module' link, and it replaces the standard DNN Friendly Url Provider. The rewriting section of the module is a Http Module which filters out the incoming ASP.NET requests for those which are for DNN pages, and rewrites both the page Url and any query string parameters as well.

• Q: I have tested this module the first problem or disavantage I faced was the with license. I have a number of DNN installation with many portals each, now some of my customers really wants the url rewriting and some do not. Do I have to manually disable the pages for each portal or would be possible to disable url rewriting per portal Thanks in advance.

  A: There is a 'host' licence available, which means that you can have unlimited portals on a single licence. However, once you install the Module on an installation, all portals will be affected. You can't run two different types of friendly Url providers on a DNN installation easily, just as you can't enable Friendly Urls for one portal and not for another. However, as the module works with most third-party modules and is backwards compatible with the standard DNN urls, you may find that all of your portals work fine with it, although this should certainly be tested. You can download a free trial to do this testing, just go to http://www.ifinity.com.au/Products/Url_Master_DNN_SEO_Urls/ Hope this helps.

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