Hyphenated URLs for folder names that have spaces

[MEKKIHUSSEIN]

Is it possible to have a URL for a folder named Exhibit A for example have the link
https://example.com/Exhibit-A
instead of
https://example.com/Exhibit%20A

I was able to change the url encoding but the indexer can no longer locate the folders and gives 'not found' error

[sixem]

Hey,

Hmm, I assume there's a good reason why you can't just rename the directories, so I'll entertain it.

There's no built-in way of achieving this, but I could come with some suggestions on how to get it to work. The standard setup will only apply it as an index, meaning that it'll only by served by the web server for actual existing directories. So, when a hypheneted URL gets requested, the web server will just assume that it's not a valid directory, and instead handle it as a non-indexable request.

To solve this, I think you'll have to serve the indxer.php directly for some URL pattern that you decide. In Nginx, as an example, a combination of location and rewrite should be possible. Point is to just redirect any request to the file, without it having to be served as a directory index. You'll also have to handle the way the files are being served by the web server for these specific directories as well, as any hyphenated request will have to point towards the actual directory on the disk.

Then you'll also have to make a slight adjustment to the Indexer as well. I think adjusting CURRENT_URI to replace any hyphens with actual spaces, should be all you need. This'll just make sure that the file actually knows what directory to serve... Ref:

ivfi-php/src/php/template.php

Line 166 in 1187501

define('CURRENT_URI', rawurldecode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));

This of course comes with some problems no matter what, as directories with actual hyphens will... get into some trouble, as they'll also be translated to having spaces instead of hyphens. I don't think there's a good way to get around that except to not have any directories with hyphens at all.

This is all I can think of without having tested it myself, but hopefully it'll be of some help.