Major site URL changes

Thanks to Mark Pilgrim’s excellent guide, “Cruft-free URLs in Movable Type,” I’ve managed to simplify my URLs a bit and anticipate future technology changes so that the URLs won’t ever have to change again. I did a lot of tweaking in Movable Type and I’ve managed to remove the file extension from all the pages, just like Mark.

Here’s the new archive setup:

• Individual Entry Archive: /archives/2003/08/cruftfree_urls/
• Monthly Archive: /archives/2003/08/
• Category Archive: /archives/the_site/

See? No more file extensions here. Thanks again for a great tip, Mark.

I ran into problems with this technique and decided to go back to including the document extension. This makes it easier to parse only HTML as PHP-CGI. Using Mark’s trick, I set the default file format as PHP-CGI, but found that it was being called up more than necessary. If it works for you, great, but I find that I ran into problems getting Unicode to display properly.