Search Engine Friendly URL
Related Topics
- Overview
- This feature shortens and simplifies URLs, which make them both more friendly for users and for search engines
- To access
- Click the SEFURL icon on the Admin Panel
or Access http://example.org/tiki-admin.php?page=sefurl
Important Note
Search Engine Friendly URLs will not work unless the .htaccess file is enabled. Instructions for enabling .htaccess
This setting may bring down your website if there is an issue with your .htaccess file.
Prior enabling this option check you have access to your database to disable it manually in case of.
Do not use this feature when installing Tiki on IIS server.
This setting may bring down your website if there is an issue with your .htaccess file.
Prior enabling this option check you have access to your database to disable it manually in case of.
Do not use this feature when installing Tiki on IIS server.
| Option | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Search engine friendly URL | If the site is using Apache, you can rename _htaccess as .htaccess to use short URLs. On IIS, rename web_config as web.config | Disabled |
| Canonical URL tag | Indicates to search engines which URL to use, to prevent duplicate listings | Enabled |
| HTTPS for user-specific links | When building notification emails, RSS feeds, the canonical URL or other externally available links, use HTTPS when the content applies to a specific user. HTTPS must be configured on the server. | Disabled |
| Canonical URL domain | If this is a testing site with duplicate content, you may want to put the real site domain here so search engines don't index the testing site. In complex perspective setups using multiple domains, you may want more control on which canonical domain is advertised. | None |
| Wiki URL scheme | Alter the SEFURL pattern for page names. Use the "View" action to regenerate your URLs after changing this setting. Replace spaces with dashes | Replace spaces with underscores | URL Encode (Tiki Classic) |
Replace spaces with dashes |
| Custom Routes | Custom routes allow the definition of URLs by the admin, that can be mapped to existing Tiki objects like pages and trackers. "Add BASE tag in the page HEAD" is required when you have "/" as part of the URL. | Enabled |
| Short URL | Provides the ability to create a short url, easy to share. | Disabled |
| Short URL base URL | The base URL that is used when generating short URLs, including the HTTP prefix, example: "http://www.example.com". By default will use the URL of the current website. | None |
| SEFURL postfilter | Do not enable this feature as most Tiki features output friendly URLs and this feature has high processor overhead. | Disabled |
| Max size of title in the search engine friendly URL (Tracker Items and Forum Threads) | Limit the number of characters in the tracker item or forum thread title. | 200 |
| Article title in SEFURL | The article title rather than article number can be displayed in the search engine friendly URL. | Enabled |
| Blog title in SEFURL | The blog title rather than blog number can be displayed in the search engine friendly URL. | Enabled |
| Display forum thread or forum post title in the search engine friendly URL | Enabled | |
| Tracker title in SEFURL | To display the title, you should disable `Rewrite tiki-view_tracker.php?itemId=yyy to Prefixyyy page` | Enabled |
| Rewrite tiki-view_tracker.php?itemId=yyy to Prefixyyy page | This redirection uses the wiki prefix alias feature | Disabled |
| Use Only ASCII in SEFURLs | Do not use accented characters in short (search engine friendly) URLs. | Disabled |
| URL Frgament format | Provides ability to change anchor format Set to "Complete" to change the encoding and allow anchors to contain other characters in addition to ASCII letters and digits. Strict | Complete |
Strict |
| URL Fragment Guesser | Scroll to the closest anchor when the one indicated in the URL is missing in a page. | Disabled |
| Option | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Search engine friendly URL | If the site is using Apache, you can rename _htaccess as .htaccess to use short URLs. On IIS, rename web_config as web.config | Disabled |
| Canonical URL tag | Indicates to search engines which URL to use, to prevent duplicate listings | Enabled |
| HTTPS for user-specific links | When building notification emails, RSS feeds, the canonical URL or other externally available links, use HTTPS when the content applies to a specific user. HTTPS must be configured on the server. | Disabled |
| Canonical URL domain | If this is a testing site with duplicate content, you may want to put the real site domain here so search engines don't index the testing site. In complex perspective setups using multiple domains, you may want more control on which canonical domain is advertised. | None |
| Wiki URL scheme | Alter the SEFURL pattern for page names. Use the "View" action to regenerate your URLs after changing this setting. Replace spaces with dashes | Replace spaces with underscores | URL Encode (Tiki Classic) |
Replace spaces with dashes |
| Custom Routes | Custom routes allow the definition of URLs by the admin, that can be mapped to existing Tiki objects like pages and trackers. "Add BASE tag in the page HEAD" is required when you have "/" as part of the URL. | Enabled |
| Short URL | Provides the ability to create a short url, easy to share. | Disabled |
| Short URL base URL | The base URL that is used when generating short URLs, including the HTTP prefix, example: "http://www.example.com". By default will use the URL of the current website. | None |
| SEFURL postfilter | Do not enable this feature as most Tiki features output friendly URLs and this feature has high processor overhead. | Disabled |
| Max size of title in the search engine friendly URL (Tracker Items and Forum Threads) | Limit the number of characters in the tracker item or forum thread title. | 200 |
| Article title in SEFURL | The article title rather than article number can be displayed in the search engine friendly URL. | Enabled |
| Blog title in SEFURL | The blog title rather than blog number can be displayed in the search engine friendly URL. | Enabled |
| Display forum thread or forum post title in the search engine friendly URL | Enabled | |
| Tracker title in SEFURL | To display the title, you should disable `Rewrite tiki-view_tracker.php?itemId=yyy to Prefixyyy page` | Enabled |
| Rewrite tiki-view_tracker.php?itemId=yyy to Prefixyyy page | This redirection uses the wiki prefix alias feature | Disabled |
| Use Only ASCII in SEFURLs | Do not use accented characters in short (search engine friendly) URLs. | Disabled |
| URL Frgament format | Provides ability to change anchor format Set to "Complete" to change the encoding and allow anchors to contain other characters in addition to ASCII letters and digits. Strict | Complete |
Strict |
| URL Fragment Guesser | Scroll to the closest anchor when the one indicated in the URL is missing in a page. | Disabled |
| Option | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Search engine friendly URL | If the site is using Apache, you can rename _htaccess as .htaccess to use short URLs. On IIS, rename web_config as web.config | Disabled |
| Canonical URL tag | Indicates to search engines which URL to use, to prevent duplicate listings | Enabled |
| HTTPS for user-specific links | When building notification emails, RSS feeds, the canonical URL or other externally available links, use HTTPS when the content applies to a specific user. HTTPS must be configured on the server. | Disabled |
| Canonical URL domain | If this is a testing site with duplicate content, you may want to put the real site domain here so search engines don't index the testing site. In complex perspective setups using multiple domains, you may want more control on which canonical domain is advertised. | None |
| Wiki URL scheme | Alter the SEFURL pattern for page names. Use the "View" action to regenerate your URLs after changing this setting. Replace spaces with dashes | Replace spaces with underscores | URL Encode (Tiki Classic) |
Replace spaces with dashes |
| Custom Routes | Custom routes allow the definition of URLs by the admin, that can be mapped to existing Tiki objects like pages and trackers. "Add BASE tag in the page HEAD" is required when you have "/" as part of the URL. | Disabled |
| Short URL | Provides the ability to create a short url, easy to share. | Disabled |
| Short URL base URL | The base URL that is used when generating short URLs, including the HTTP prefix, example: "http://www.example.com". By default will use the URL of the current website. | None |
| SEFURL postfilter | Do not enable this feature as most Tiki features output friendly URLs and this feature has high processor overhead. | Disabled |
| Max size of title in the search engine friendly URL (Tracker Items and Forum Threads) | Limit the number of characters in the tracker item or forum thread title. | 200 |
| Article title in SEFURL | The article title rather than article number can be displayed in the search engine friendly URL. | Enabled |
| Blog title in SEFURL | The blog title rather than blog number can be displayed in the search engine friendly URL. | Enabled |
| Display forum thread or forum post title in the search engine friendly URL | Enabled | |
| Tracker title in SEFURL | To display the title, you should disable `Rewrite tiki-view_tracker.php?itemId=yyy to Prefixyyy page` | Disabled |
| Rewrite tiki-view_tracker.php?itemId=yyy to Prefixyyy page | This redirection uses the wiki prefix alias feature | Disabled |
| Use Only ASCII in SEFURLs | Do not use accented characters in short (search engine friendly) URLs. | Disabled |
| Option | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Search engine friendly URL | If the site is using Apache, you can rename _htaccess as .htaccess to use short URLs. On IIS, rename web_config as web.config | Disabled |
| Canonical URL tag | Indicates to search engines which URL to use, to prevent duplicate listings | Enabled |
| HTTPS for user-specific links | When building notification emails, RSS feeds, the canonical URL or other externally available links, use HTTPS when the content applies to a specific user. HTTPS must be configured on the server. | Disabled |
| Canonical URL domain | If this is a testing site with duplicate content, you may want to put the real site domain here so search engines don't index the testing site. In complex perspective setups using multiple domains, you may want more control on which canonical domain is advertised. | None |
| Wiki URL scheme | Alter the SEFURL pattern for page names. Use the "View" action to regenerate your URLs after changing this setting. Replace spaces with dashes | Replace spaces with underscores | URL Encode (Tiki Classic) |
Replace spaces with dashes |
| Custom Routes | Custom routes allow the definition of URLs by the admin, that can be mapped to existing Tiki objects like pages and trackers. "Add BASE tag in the page HEAD" is required when you have "/" as part of the URL. | Disabled |
| Short URL | Provides the ability to create a short url, easy to share. | Disabled |
| Short URL base URL | The base URL that is used when generating short URLs, including the HTTP prefix, example: "http://www.example.com". By default will use the URL of the current website. | None |
| SEFURL postfilter | Do not enable this feature as most Tiki features output friendly URLs and this feature has high processor overhead. | Disabled |
| Max size of title in the search engine friendly URL (Tracker Items and Forum Threads) | Limit the number of characters in the tracker item or forum thread title. | 200 |
| Article title in SEFURL | The article title rather than article number can be displayed in the search engine friendly URL. | Enabled |
| Blog title in SEFURL | The blog title rather than blog number can be displayed in the search engine friendly URL. | Enabled |
| Display forum thread or forum post title in the search engine friendly URL | Enabled | |
| Tracker title in SEFURL | To display the title, you should disable `Rewrite tiki-view_tracker.php?itemId=yyy to Prefixyyy page` | Disabled |
| Rewrite tiki-view_tracker.php?itemId=yyy to Prefixyyy page | This redirection uses the wiki prefix alias feature | Disabled |
| Use Only ASCII in SEFURLs | Do not use accented characters in short (search engine friendly) URLs. | Disabled |
| Option | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Search engine friendly URL | If the site is using Apache, you can rename _htaccess as .htaccess to use short URLs. On IIS, rename web_config as web.config | Disabled |
| Canonical URL tag | Indicates to search engines which URL to use, to prevent duplicate listings | Enabled |
| HTTPS for user-specific links | When building notification emails, RSS feeds, the canonical URL or other externally available links, use HTTPS when the content applies to a specific user. HTTPS must be configured on the server. | Disabled |
| Canonical URL domain | If this is a testing site with duplicate content, you may want to put the real site domain here so search engines don't index the testing site. In complex perspective setups using multiple domains, you may want more control on which canonical domain is advertised. | None |
| Wiki URL scheme | Alter the SEFURL pattern for page names. Use the "View" action to regenerate your URLs after changing this setting. Replace spaces with dashes | Replace spaces with underscores | URL Encode (Tiki Classic) |
Replace spaces with dashes |
| Custom Routes | Custom routes allow the definition of URLs by the admin, that can be mapped to existing Tiki objects like pages and trackers. "Add BASE tag in the page HEAD" is required when you have "/" as part of the URL. | Disabled |
| Short URL | Provides the ability to create a short url, easy to share. | Disabled |
| Short URL base URL | The base URL that is used when generating short URLs, including the HTTP prefix, example: "http://www.example.com". By default will use the URL of the current website. | None |
| SEFURL postfilter | Do not enable this feature as most Tiki features output friendly URLs and this feature has high processor overhead. | Disabled |
| Max size of title in the search engine friendly URL (Tracker Items and Forum Threads) | Limit the number of characters in the tracker item or forum thread title. | 200 |
| Article title in SEFURL | The article title rather than article number can be displayed in the search engine friendly URL. | Enabled |
| Blog title in SEFURL | The blog title rather than blog number can be displayed in the search engine friendly URL. | Enabled |
| Display forum thread or forum post title in the search engine friendly URL | Enabled | |
| Tracker title in SEFURL | To display the title, you should disable `Rewrite tiki-view_tracker.php?itemId=yyy to Prefixyyy page` | Disabled |
| Rewrite tiki-view_tracker.php?itemId=yyy to Prefixyyy page | This redirection uses the wiki prefix alias feature | Disabled |
| Use Only ASCII in SEFURLs | Do not use accented characters in short (search engine friendly) URLs. | Disabled |