No permalink for subpages

Kirby 2 Questions 🤔
1

Hey there,
I couldn’t find any topic, so here goes:

If I wanted a subpage not to have an own page, how’d I accomplish that? I want to make them inaccessible via their URL, for example in the starterkit > About > Team members (them cats). It’s a nice way to think of them as child pages / subpages, but each of them gets /about/name-of-cat URL.

Hopefully somebody can explain, I’m totally willing to learn the force of Kirby,
thanks

S1SYPHOS

2

Every page you create in Kirby has it’s own URL, you can’t prevent that.

The best way to cope with this “problem”, is by using routes. These routes react on a certain pattern an can then reroute either to the parent or the error page. See the docs: https://getkirby.com/docs/developer-guide/advanced/routing

Example: This would reroute all children of the about page to the parent:

c::set('routes', array(
  array(
    'pattern' => 'about/(:any)',
    'action'  => function() {
       go('about');
    }
  )
));
3

I have used a different approach before. I created a custom page model in which I override the controller function to redirect to the parent page; then I assign the new page model to my subpage blueprints explicitly with

kirby()->set('page::model', 'my-subpage-blueprint', 'MyPageModelClass');

That way, wherever I decide to put my subpage(s), if I someone tries to access their URL directly, they get redirected to the parent page.

4

I use another solution similar to @texnixe with a difference.

If the site is new I see no need for a redirect in the first place. We don’t expect people to look for about/some-page anyway so I think it should just be an error 404.

c::set('routes', array(
  array(
    'pattern' => 'about/(:any)',
    'action'  => function() {
       return site()->visit('error');
    }
  )
));