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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

CMS Made Simple is a an open source content management system that allows rapid website development in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding by providing modules and 3rd Party add-ons. With this book in hand you will be able to harness the power of this modular and extendable content management system at your fingertips.This guide for CMS Made Simple is based on practical and working solutions allowing you to understand how this powerful and simple application can support you in your daily work. The workshop helps you create engaging, effective, and easy-to-use CMS websites for businesses, clubs, or organizations.This is a step- by-step case study, aimed at helping you build a complete professional website with CMS Made Simple. You can take a ready-to-use template or implement your own custom design, enrich the website with features like a photo gallery, an e-commerce solution with PayPal checkout, and forms of any complexity or popular JQuery effects and finish it off by optimizing it for search engines. The useful HTML and CSS code snippets are optimized and can be easily adapted for your own projects. Chapter by chapter you will put yourself in the role of web designer, developer, administrator, and business manager, thus learning every aspect needed for building rich websites that are very simple to manage.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
CMS Made Simple 1.6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Time for action - turning on search engine friendly URLs


Let's see how search engine friendly URLs can be enabled in CMS Made Simple.

  1. 1. Open an FTP browser of your choice (for example, FileZilla), and find the folder doc in your installation.

  2. 2. Copy the htaccess.txt file from the doc folder into the root directory of your CMSMS website (at the same level as the config.php file).

  3. 3. Rename the file htaccess.txt to .htaccess (pay attention to the period at the front of the filename).

  4. 4. In the next step, open the config.php file for editing, and find the section URL Settings.

  5. 5. Change the line for rewriting URLs, as shown:

    $config['url_rewriting'] = 'mod_rewrite';
    
  6. 6. Open your website, and see how the links in the navigation look. They should be search engine friendly now.

What just happened?

To enable search engine friendly URLs on your website, you had to complete two steps. In the first step, you moved the file htaccess.txt into the root directory of your website. You then renamed the moved...