Remove segment from URL

Question

I'd like to take any URL where segment_1 == "supernav" and remove that segment. So this:

http://alpha.ced.berkeley.edu/supernav/gallery/

Would become this:

http://alpha.ced.berkeley.edu/gallery/

How can I do this?

Answer 1

I'd create a template group called supernav, and put this in its index template:

{redirect="{segment_2}/{segment_3}"}

(If there's no 3rd segment present, EE will ignore it.)

Answer 2

If you're not actually talking about doing a redirect (it's not quite clear from your question for me) then you may want to consider using Freebie for this:

http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/freebie

In the freebie extension settings you can set supernav to be ignored so, any time you hit http://alpha.ced.berkeley.edu/gallery/ you are really hitting http://alpha.ced.berkeley.edu/supernav/gallery/

And of course you would make sure in your hrefs that you removed supernav/.

Answer 3

Here are a couple mod_rewrite options to try in your .htaccess file to remove the "supernav" segment of your URL:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^supernav/gallery/$ /gallery [L]

or

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ supernav/$1 [L]

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Worth taking a look at...

• mod_rewrite Cheat Sheet
• Docs for Apache Module mod_rewrite