Custom URLs

Normally, when you create a web page in Wild Apricot, its address (URL) is created automatically in the form "<yourdomain>/Default.aspx?pageId=1234". You might however specify a Custom URL - a more human-readable URL like "<mydomain>/member directory"

This feature is part of CSS customization and SEO tools and is available to paid plans only.

This can provide the following advantages:

• Its easy to remember (e.g. if you want to use it in your advertising)
• Helps with Search Engine Optimization (It's a good idea to include your targeted keywords into page URL)
• Useful when transferring from another hosting to a Wild Apricot platform. (For example, if your 'About us' page had an address <yourdomain>/aboutus.html, now you can assign the exact same page URL to this page on your new Wild Apricot website. This means that links to this page from other websites will still work.)

To add your own custom URL to any page (except the homepage), go into Page Management and click on the page in question

In this example we will assign our own custom url to the page "Member Info":

Press the [Save page structure] button to make the page "Member Info" accessible at "<mydomain>/Membership" - the original url ("<mydomain>/Default.aspx?pageId=22494") would still work as well.

Custom URLs restrictions

URL format

• Use any extension (e.g. html, php, jsp, do) except for reserved extensions listed below
• You can use sub-folders in the path e.g. you can specify a Custom URL like "page1/page2/page3"

You may NOT use:

• double slashes in path, e.g. /Articles//trees
• custom URL for home page
• extensions reserved for resource files:
• reserved system urls starting with:
  • /Sys/
  • /Info/
  • /Admin/
  • /EmailTracker/
  • /Captcha/
  • /Content/
  • /WebDav/
  • /Common/
  • /Errors/
  • /Widget/
  • /Logs/
  • /Resources/
  • /RadControls/
  • /App_Themes/
  • /Payments/
  • /DES/
  • /SupportTicketsHandler.ashx
  • /PromoBannerHandler.ashx
  • /DESGetFiles.aspx
  • /ViewEvent.aspx
  • /DocumentHandler.ashx
  • /KeepSessionAlive.ashx
  • /Default.aspx

Allowed characters

You can use:

• Latin characters
• Numbers
• Special characters:

You can NOT use:

• Non-latin characters
• Other special characters not listed above.