Subpage make URL as if top level

[SamC]

Been away for a while skilling up on css animations and svg. Anyway, I'm back in the PW game and my momentum has halted after time away! Just wondering how to make the following work:

So we have mysite.com/misc-pages/privacy-policy/

How do I make this page have a URL like this:

mysite.com/privacy-policy/

...without having to move this page to the top level?

Looked at urlsegments but this would only affect anything after i.e. mysite.com/misc-pages/*

It's a menu in the footer which I can create easy enough with children of misc-pages, however, I'm not too keen on the URL in this situation. Or is it just a case of renaming 'misc-pages' to something else and getting on with life?

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Zeka]

Hi @SamC

You should allow segments for the home page and then you can do what you want.

But to keep things simple you can just rename "Misc pages" to something like "Info".

[SamC]

2 minutes ago, Zeka said:

But to keep things simple you could just rename "Misc pages" to something like "Info".

I think is the best approach. After giving it some thought, there's probably no real need for these pages to appear as top level. Thanks.

[rick]

I'm sure there is a ProcessWire way to do it, but I'm not skilled enough yet, so I settled for a document tree that looks like this:

/home/policy/tos
/home/policy/privacy
/home/policy/aup
...

which presents urls like, domain.com/policy/tos, etc.

Those pages use the 'policy' template so that I can select or exclude them depending on which menu I'm rendering.

[SamC]

@rick I forgot to ask, how do you handle '/home/policy/'?

Does 'policy' have a template file to match the one set in the admin? I set '/misc/' to published but hidden so this page throws a 404. I have no template file for my 'misc-pages' template. All that was supposed to be for was a parent for listing child pages.

i.e. I have:

/misc/faq/
/misc/privacy-policy/
/misc/cookie-policy/
/misc/terms-and-conditions/

...with templates set up like this:

/misc-pages/basic-page/

If that makes sense.

[rick]

Hi @SamC,

Yes, my /home/policy page uses the policy template. The /home/policy/privacy and /home/policy/tos pages also use the policy template from the allowed template for children setting. I just redirect /home/policy page to /home/policy/privacy page to prevent access or 404. As I said, there is probably a more ProcessWire-esque way to do it, but I don't know what that would be.

[SamC]

Thanks @rick

I always like to read how other people approach a problem as it gives me more options when said problem becomes one of mine!

[Mike Rockett]

Yeah, I tend to stick to the tree-model for this kind of thing. In this case, I tend to use "legal/terms", etc. If need be, there's always Jumplinks for quick redirects.

[TheMick]

Just for future readers looking for an easy solution:

If you install the PagePathHistory Module you can add additional paths for a page in the settings of the page.