Any way to make urls end in .html, .xml, etc?

[creativejay]

I am working on migrating a site from MODX to PWire.

On the previous site, the page URLs ended in .html or sometimes .xml, and I'm hoping there's some way to write the URLs of the PWire site to end with delimiters.

In most cases it's just to avoid the inconvenience of a redirect, but in at least one case there's a dependency on those URLs from outside applications (an iOS app checks the product list via a URL that ends in .xml, for example).

Thanks!

[Soma]

Just add .xml to the name ans disable trailing slashes.

[Mike Rockett]

Didn't know you could do this. After all, the field descriptor says "Any combination of letters (a-z), numbers (0-9), dashes or underscores (no spaces)."

[creativejay]

I thought I had tried something like that before, but I maybe I hadn't deactivated the trailing slash in the template URLs tab. Thank you!

[creativejay]

I've disabled trailing slashes in the template, but across the site page references are still including a trailing slash. This is affecting Redirects and other things. The page loads correctly in the browser URL bar, but this is hindering some things from working properly.

Has anyone run into this who knows a workaround or a fix?

It's discussed already a bit in this thread: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/148-release-redirects/?p=88898

... but it's bigger than just that module so I figured I'd bring it back here.

[Macrura]

you could also hook into page path and do your custom page name without the trailing slash, so the page references render the correct url;

[Soma]

I can't reproduce this. I have basic-page without trailing slash and a page field to select pages. The url of those don't have a trailing slash.

[creativejay]

Here is what's happening for me, the biggest problem I'm running into is that Redirects won't function properly with this setup.

Here is the trailing slash setting of the template.

Here is the Settings tab of a page using that template.

Here is the system message upon saving.

Setting up a redirect by selecting the page

The Page is not saved and the system message shows the slash again.

It also does not save the "Redirect To" field if I manually enter the page path.

As you can see from the screen shot of the Redirects list, I have some that link to a page ending in .html/

In these cases I changed the template to remove the trailing slash AFTER setting up the redirect, in the hopes it would retain that page. It does.. until I go to update it...

Then the URL is invalidated.

As I said, if I view the URL directly, it loads without the trailing slash in the URL, but there seems to be an issue with the system actually respecting that setting down to the core level.

Anyone have any thoughts? Appreciate your help!