Remove /blog/ from the URL

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1

Hi folks,

I’ve set the /blog page as my homepage on my site with this:

return [
    'home' => 'blog',

It works well, but blog post URLs are bit funky, in that they now include /blog/ in the URL. I’d like to remove this, which I’ve been able to do with the following route:

'routes' => [
        [
            'pattern' => '(:any)',
            'action'  => function($uid) {
                $page = page($uid);
                if(!$page) $page = page('blog/' . $uid);
                if(!$page) $page = site()->errorPage();
                return site()->visit($page);
            }
        ],
        [
            'pattern' => 'blog/(:any)',
            'action'  => function($uid) {
                go($uid);
            }
        ]
    ]

However, on my blog home page (where all my blog posts are listed), the links to the single posts still include the /blog/ part of the URL.

How do I remove them from there too? Basically, I’d like /blog/ to go away from my site entirely, as my homepage is my blog, so the concept of /blog/ just isn’t a thing on my site.

Thanks!

2

Ideally, you overwrite the url() method in your article page model to output the correct URL and prevent the redirect from the old to the new URL.

Example here: Overwrite url() in page model

Adapt to what you need to output.

3

That worked perfectly, thank you. For anyone who’s interested, here’s the model I made as /site/models/article.php:

<?php
class ArticlePage extends Page {
  public function url($options = null): string {
    return $this->slug();
  }
}