Manage-pages:Page wildcard

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What is the page wildcard?

The page wildcard checkbox is fundamental to the rendering of each page, see How it works for more information.

Each time the URI location is fed into the application, it will be checked against each pages URI. If there is no match found, then the request will be rejected, and the user shown a HTTP 404 error.

If the wildcard checkbox is checked, then the first parts of the URI will be matched for a page, and the rest will be passed through to the application as wildcards. For example:

www.domain.com/news/a_story_about_penguins

The first forward slash will match a page called news - then pass a_story_about_penguins as a wildcard to the application. Thus, any module assigned to that page will be able to use this to display a relevant piece of data. If your page has a module assigned that requires wildcards to operate, then this checkbox will need to be checked (you will need to find this out from your module developer).

Change page wildcard status

1. To edit a pages wildcard, click on the Manage pages menu item on the top of the page.
2. Click on the name of the page that you are looking to edit.
3. Check or un-check the checkbox labelled Wildcard? to change the state of the pages wildcard status.
4. The change will be instantly saved.