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Scott McCulloch posted on June 02, 2005 16:13 
DotNetNuke is a content management system that allows webmasters to
quickly build web sites (portals). Webmasters can create, modify and
delete any number of pages (previously known as tabs) within their
portal.
To provide this functionality, DotNetNuke will store the details about
the portal (page hierarchy) and the page content (known as modules)
inside a data store (default is a SQL Server database).
As with most data structures a unique key is used to retrieve content
out of the data store. Traditionally, this key has been known as
“TabID”, a parameter that appears in most DotNetNuke URLs for version’s
1.x and 2.x. As a page is requested, typically a “TabID” is provided to
identify the page within the application’s data store.
A traditional URL might have looked like:- http://www.dotnetnuke.com/default.aspx?tabid=510
When the page is processed, a TabID is used to identify a number of items:-
• The content for the current page.
• The portal for the current page (TabID’s (pages) belong to a portal)
The above however, has a number of problems. Firstly, the above URL is
not easily remembered by a human, e.g. it is not human friendly.
Secondly, it is not search engine friendly, most search engines will
ignore or avoid pages with parameters.
This guide will investigate the requirements, the concepts and the implementation around Friendly URLs for DotNetNuke.
Wednesday, July 06, 2005 6:07 PM
Thanks a lot
Thursday, July 21, 2005 12:04 PM
Scott, great information. Any chance that DNN 3.1.1 could offer that the URL created be PageName.aspx instead of the basic default.aspx? You already do this in the Article module. How about a core option to use default.aspx or pageName.aspx? Might help with SEO and such.
Thursday, July 21, 2005 6:44 PM
I could release a tweaked provider for it?
Wednesday, August 10, 2005 11:28 AM
Is there a list of url paramters we can use for creating a url? for example: tabid, ctl, mid i have found it difficult to find and would love to know.
Wednesday, November 09, 2005 9:37 AM
How does the DNN solution address the requirement that physical folders not be created for child portals? Or for the friendly URLs for that matter? Doesn't IIS reject the invalid filepath before passing the request to the aspnet http handler?
Friday, January 27, 2006 1:00 PM
How can I disable this friendly URL feature? Maria
Tuesday, May 02, 2006 6:06 AM
Great!!!
Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:54 AM
Can anybody give me the details of how to use this friendly url feature. I have a menu item, "Edge" so i added
.*Edge.aspx
~/Default.aspx?tabid=58
in my siteurl.config file. But when I click on "Edge" it still shows me the same url with tabid/58/default.aspx in the address bar. What should I do?? can any one help me Please...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 4:45 PM
Thanks for a detailed post, exactly what I was looking for. One question though, probably a stupid one but I shall ask it anyways... Is it possibly to use shortened links (www.domain.com/About/Newsfeed.aspx) in the Inventua Sidemenu module. Currently I have it using the extended URL (www.domain.com/ParentPage/Page/tabid/xxx/Default.aspx) Thanks in advance...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 5:16 PM
You should take a look at this page, it includes an enhanced URL provider to do what you need:- http://www.ventrian.com/Resources/Projects/FriendlyUrls.aspx
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 10:20 PM
Thanks for the quick reply
Sunday, December 16, 2007 10:26 AM
This is GREAT INFORMATION, you share with the community like I haven't seen often ! I use your new article since a while and tried to buy another SEO thing that gave a second URL and you are right! I just lost ranking in goole because of double content :(... Since i uninstalled it, i also lost some URL in a few articles, not all (curious ??). What would you recommand to get back all the initial settings ? Thanks in advance !
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:40 AM
How can we add more specific rules?? Such as to strip out specific phrases?? And replace space with + or _ (underscore)?? Thank you, Tom
Friday, August 29, 2008 1:48 AM
I can only read the first page of this article. When I click on the Next Page link, I end up back on the same page (page 1). I've tried with FireFox 3 and IE 6. Can someone help? Thanks.
Friday, August 29, 2008 1:59 AM
I can only read the first page of this article. Yep, I just deployed a change to news articles and this is a bug, it will be fixed shortly.
Friday, August 29, 2008 2:14 AM
tjbuege - can you try now?
Friday, August 29, 2008 6:15 AM
Works much better now. Thanks!
Friday, September 05, 2008 5:59 AM
thanks
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:01 PM
well that sucks, I had written out an huge comment but site crashed and I lost it. Basically I was thanking you for the solution. I'm modifying it to further parse the query string. I am in an environment where a 'tabid' in the query string may need to be further parsed and the page redirected to some place other than ~/default.aspx?tabid=xxx
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 3:49 AM
How can I disable this friendly URL feature? Mike
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:03 AM
In host settings.
Friday, July 31, 2009 2:37 AM
Traditionally, this key has been known as “TabID”, a parameter that appears in most Dot Net Nuke URLs for version’s 1.x and 2.x. As a page is requested, typically a “Ta Bid” is provided to identify the page within the application’s data store.Basically I was thanking you for the solution. I'm modifying it to further parse the query string. I am in an environment where a 'ta bid' in the query string may need to be further parsed and the page redirected to some place other than ~/default
Friday, August 14, 2009 6:35 PM
is there any efficiency way to built one-way link?
Saturday, October 03, 2009 8:12 PM
thank you for your info, it's so usefull for me
Wednesday, October 07, 2009 6:57 PM
Hi, I'm already using Friendly URls (e.g. http://myserver.com/mypage.aspx) and need to redirect users to a login page, whereupon they'll be redirected to the referring page. Using Request.ServerVariables["SCRIPT_NAME"] to obtain the path for the referring file doesn't work - can you tell me how I can obtain the path for the current page, using Friendly URLs? Thanks!
Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:29 AM
Hello, Is it possible to use FriendlyURLs to fix a broken link? Our dnn site crashed and we were unable to recover it. Old URL: www.springbok.ca/LinkClick.aspx?link=318&tabid=58 New URL: www.springbok.ca/Services/BusinessAnalysis/tabid/58/Default.aspx When I try to manually edit the SiteURLs file with this code, it throws an error. .*/LinkClick.aspx?link=318&tabid=58 ~/Default.aspx?tabid=58In Visual Studios, it does not like & symbol. Any ideas on how I can correct this? Thank you,
Thursday, January 21, 2010 1:41 PM
Try the encoded value for &, it is &
Thursday, January 21, 2010 1:41 PM
The last comment is missing amp;
Friday, January 22, 2010 10:18 AM
do you have to restart the app for the changes in the SiteURLs files to be noticed by the app?
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