LA 3.1.9

Instead of having:

links.html
links-stuff.html
links-morestuff.html

How can I get it to be:

index.html
stuff.html
morestuff.html

?

Many thanks

Pages are being named after the structure of the categories in the project. For example, if you've got the following category structure:
+Links
├+Category1
│ └Category11
│ └Category12
├+Category2
│ └Category21
│ └Category22
└-Category3

Then your pages will be named like this:
--------------------------------
links.html
links-category1.html
links-category1-category11.html
links-category1-category12.html
links-category2.html
links-category2-category21.html
links-category2-category22.html
links-category3.html
--------------------------------

So, if you want to get rid of the "links-" prefix, just move "Category1", "Category2" and "Category3" to the top level (make them "root" categories), and then delete the "Links" category.

+Category1
└Category11
└Category12
+Category2
└Category21
└Category22
-Category3

This way you'll get the following naming:
--------------------------------
category1.html
category1-category11.html
category1-category12.html
category2.html
...
--------------------------------

To do this, please go to "Preferences -> Link Directory Settings -> Categories...", and use the "Move in"/"Move out" buttons to change the level of your catogories. LinkAssistant will change file names automatically next time you'll be generating the link directory.

Hope I was clear enough.

Thanks. I'll give it a try, thanks again

I gave it a try but no luck.

I added a few cats, made sure they were "moved out" to be top-tier categories.

I then deleted the original directory.

However, I still get the following:

http://www.abc.com/links-cat2.html
http://www.abc.com/links-cat3.html
http://www.abc.com/links-cat4.html

I also shut down the prog and restarted to see if it would make a difference, but no go

Hm-m-m... This can't be so, really - the solution above should work 100%. We've got something really weird here...

Could you please send us your project - we'll check it ourselves, and fix it (I'm sure there's just a tiny misconfiguration, so we'll be able to solve the problem really quickly.) Deal? Waiting for the project then, thanks.

I want the same thing, to get rid of links in the url. tried the move out part, didnt work for me.
Is there already a fix for this.

Tnx Jan

Jan,

yes, the fix is ready. Please go to Preferences -> Link Directory settings -> Link Directory templates -> Edit -> Server-side settings and leave the name blank. It will be "links.html" for your main page and all your category pages won't have any prefix.

Hi, thats a good workaround but what if i cant use links as my page? As the link directory IS my main page it has to be named index.html. Not the end of the world if not as ill just have to live with index-name.html.

Exactly

I need it to be like this:

index.html

cat-1.html
cat-2.html
cat-3.html
somecustompagename.html
anotherpage.html


etc....

LA 3.7

I tried the fix mentioned:

Preferences -> Link Directory settings -> Link Directory templates -> Edit -> Server-side settings and leave the name blank

but when I click "OK", an error popup comes up that asks for a file name: "Please specify a file name"

So, it's not able to have a blank in the "Enter a file name for your links page" box.

Did I misunderstand the fix?