Customizing Manila URLs

Every web page has a URL address that is used to locate it on the world wide web. A URL contains at least three important pieces of information. At this support site, the URL http://faculty.deanza.fhda.edu/support/info logically points to the info page in the support section of the faculty.deanza.fhda.edu web site.

1. http:// identifies this URL as a web site address.
2. faculty.deanza.fhda.edu identifies the web server where the page is found.
3. /support/info (and any following text) specifies where the page is found on the faculty.deanza.fhda.edu server - e.g. its file name and/or what folder it is found.

By default, Manila sites use a different scheme. Manila users know that a "story" is simply a web page. Each new Manila story is numbered sequentially. Since the Info page was the second story created on this web site its default URL is:

http://faculty.deanza.edu/support/stories/storyReader$2

You can create a logical URL for any existing Manila story right on its Edit Story page. Manila refers to this type of URL as a "logical path." In the following example we'll create a "logical path" for a calendar page of a class offered during the spring term.

• Default URL: http://faculty.deanza.fhda.edu/FacultyJane/stories/storyReader$8
• Logical path: http://faculty.deanza.fhda.edu/FacultyJane/spring/calendar/music1

1. Go to your site and log in as editor.
2. Go the page for which you want to create a logical path URL. (http://faculty.deanza.fhda.edu/FacultyJane/stories/storyReader$8 in our example.)
3. Click the Edit this Page button to go to the Edit Story page.
4. Scroll down the Edit Story page to find the Admin box near the bottom.
5. Click on the "Set a relative path for this message?" button.
6. Type the relative path into the Path: box. This includes the part of the URL that follows your normal home page URL. In our example this is "/spring/calendar/music1."
   
   
    
7. Click on the Submit button.
8. The next page confirms your new URL. (The original URL will also continue to work.)