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| uCoz Community Archives Locked Why the peculiar page names? |
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Alright, so in another thread I asked for help changing my page names from mysite.ucoz.com/index/mypage/0-6 (or similar numbers) to mysite.ucoz.com/mypage.
Shadowslash linked me to a tutorial on using web folders for a fancy redirect trick, which was cool, but I find myself asking, why is that required? Why can't ucoz generate pages with a simple url? (And if it can and I'm mistaken in this, could someone please explain to me how it's done?) Post edited by Kyrt_Ryder - Tuesday, 2011-02-15, 4:32 AM
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this have to do with the way uCoz has building.
the index is a module like the others (board, forum, dir, etc.) and the number is the ID of each page you create (useful for coding). if you want something like: mysite.ucoz.com/mypage you have to use the file manager and create pages without uCoz modules. regards |
Quote (Kyrt_Ryder) Why can't ucoz generate pages with a simple url? (And if it can and I'm mistaken in this, could someone please explain to me how it's done?) Here's a somewhat comprehensive answer to your question that aims to explain the you'd need to know, here you go: uCoz is a content management service or CMS so to speak. Being a CMS, they aren't sure what kind of content a user will enter for a certain page of the user's website. That means uCoz is dynamic. As for the fancy URLs, those are numerical IDs. In lack of knowing what kind of data the users will enter, they asign numbers to the user's content instead. For example, if you have a page mysite ucoz.com/index/0-2/somename, the "somename" part is just an SEO friendly URL extension. I will not talk about SEO here so that's out of topic. Either way, your page will still function if you use mysite.ucoz.com/index/0-2 without the /somename. In the database, your certain "somename" page is assigned the numerical ID "2". So whenever you change your content or page title, your page URL will stay the same. You may be wondering "but this is also possible with static pages right?", well to answer your question, in the structure of a database like MySQL or MSSQL or Oracle, or whatever, all data mostly revolves around IDs. IDs are numbers. uCoz is simply going along the standards of making a system. Even if I'd made a content management system like uCoz, I'd have used the same approach. "Friends don't let friends use Internet Explorer 6." - Microsoft || Join the cause. Help your friends.
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