Hide template_group segment in URL

Question

I've seen this question in Google but the link ended up dead on the Ellislab page.

I have a not too big site which resides all in one template group.

Is it possible to remove the template group from the url so instead of http://domain.com/site/contact it should be http://domain.com/contact

I already stripped the index.php via .htaccess

I once removed the template folder by linking to subpages with: {path='contact'} instead of {path='site/contact'} but I'm not sure if this is a good practice and doesn't mess up the site in one way or another.

Answer 1

Few days ago there was a question about Strict URLs in EE, enabling Strict url you have option to link directly to template jumping over template_group What does "Enable Strict URLs" really mean? does this solves your issue?

Answer 2

Using {path=contact} to link to a template in site/contact is definitely a safe practice. Is it a "good" practice? There's no real downside to it, so I'd say yes.

There's also nothing 'bad' about having multiple template groups (within reason!), so you could also use contact/index as your template and link to it with {path=contact}

Answer 3

The default template group should not be showing in the first segment. Has this been set for the site template group?

Typically on small sites I just hard code the main navigation.