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Permalinks
Create custom permalinks via the Settings tab in your GetSimple installation. Permalinks help define the URL structure of your site. If you put a value in the Custom Permalink Structure input box, your FancyURL setting may be overridden by the string you put in.
The default URL structure for “FancyURLs” ON is:
%parent%/%slug%/
The default URL structure for “FancyURLs” OFF is:
index.php?id=%slug%
Syntax
The two tags to build your custom permalink are %parent% and %slug%
Do not use a beginning slash
Examples
Replace subdirectory with your own virtual directory - this folder does not need to exist:
subdirectory/%parent%/%slug%/
Removes the index.php from URL. This can be done without Fancy URL's turned on:
?id=%slug%
Adding .php or .html to URLs
If you want to add either .php or .html to your website's pages, you first need to set the Custom Permalink Structure to %slug%.php.
Next, you need to make a small change to your root level .htaccess file. Change the Rewrite Rule to this:
RewriteRule /?([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)\.php$ index.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]
(Of course, change .php to .html in the Rewrite Rule above if you are using that extension instead)
