Friendly URL for files

Hi Andew,

You should read URL format and configuration "Reference - URL settings section"

Hi Andrew,

This is how I understand. if you keep "Friendly URLS extensions" and "Files Friendly URLS extensions" empty instead of the default values of ".aspx", then you should be able access your home page which /home.aspx as /home and your images like /media/websitename/logo.aspx(PNG) as /media/websitename/logo.png. This means that you will be able to access your resources the way they are.

Screenshot of settings

Let me know if this helps.

Cheers, Chetan

Hello,

Thank you for the answer.

I set this back to .aspx and I am able to view the file as http://website/assets/logo.aspx now however it is still not possible to view it as .png (which is the original extension of this file). I simply get 404 error.

I had this issue with Kentico 6 as well. Is it possible it requires some web.config changes to make it work? It is a fresh installation.

Can you try this in your web.config file.

<system.webServer>
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true">

Under your system.webserver settings check if you have this enabled.

P.S:- You need to keep those two settings to blank or if you want to support you could do like this

Friendly URL extension - `.aspx;.html;.htm;;

Files friendly URL extension - Keep it blank, this will ensure no extension being added to your file and they will be accessible as it is`

Let me know if this works.

Cheers Chetan

Hi Andrew,

Does that help you resolve your problem?

Cheers Chetan

It is necessary to close the tag. <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" />
It didn't help unfortunately... :(

In IIS log I am getting:

2016-04-18 10:03:54 188.68.249.218 GET /assets/logo.png - 80 - 87.204.150.129 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+10.0;+WOW64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/49.0.2623.112+Safari/537.36 http://domain.com/CMSModules/Content/CMSDesk/Properties/General.aspx?mode=edit&tabselemid=m_c_plc_lt_ctl00_HorizontalTabs_l_t_tabsElem&nodeid=3&culture=en-GB 404 0 2 15

but the file exists obviously.

I noticed that when I set the option: Use URLs with trailing slash: to use WITH TRAILING SLASH and having Files friendly URL extension: and Friendly URL extensions: empty then the link: http://domain.com/assets/logo.jpg/ works fine. However if I set it to use without trailing slash then it stops working if I try http://domain.com/assets/logo.jpg (without /) ....

After investigation with the Kentico Support the issue was with runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" incorrectly placed. The answer above was incomplete because it is a rare case when <modules> will exist by itself in the CMS web.config file.

My part of web.config file with this issue resolved is as below:

  <!-- FiftyOne END -->
  <system.webServer>
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true">
      <remove name="WebDAVModule" />
      <remove name="XHtmlModule" />
      <remove name="CMSApplicationModule" />
      <add name="XHtmlModule" type="CMS.OutputFilter.OutputFilterModule, CMS.OutputFilter" />
      <add name="CMSApplicationModule" preCondition="managedHandler" type="CMS.Base.ApplicationModule, CMS.Base" />
    </modules>

In CMS Settings I've got fields: "Friendly URL extensions" and "Friendly files URL extensions" set as blank. Additionally I checked and it works with 'Removed trailing slash' option and 'Redirect all to lower-case'.

Thank you for your help.