Microsites in Joomla 3

[Neog_Developer]

I'm trying to create a "microsite" under my joomla installation by creating a rewrite rule in my web.config that changes all the pages we want in the microsite's urls from format "example.com/article-title" to "example.com/microsite/article-title", but the changes don't seem to be applying to the live site. Has anyone dealt with this issue or can suggest a better approach to microsites?

[AlexVega]

Hi there,

Welcome to the Forum, you also can use the default menu structure in joomla!, try this:

- Create your main category Microsites,
- Create your first article Microsite1,
- Create a new menu called Sites,
- Create a new menu item called Microsites,
In this case you can select something like Text Separator in the Menu Item Type.
- Create a new menu item called Microsite1, the parent item should be Microsites.
Here select in the memu item type, Single Article and select Microsite1.

At this point you need some structure like:

Content Structure:
Category Microsites
-- Article Microsite1

Menu Structure
Sites
- Microsites
--Microsite1

Now, create a new module for your new menu Sites, if you access to the link Microsite1
the URL will be yoursite.com/microsites/microsite1

From here you can add modules inside your article or add your modules in the template
positions.

Cheers.

[Neog_Developer]

Thank you! I really appreciate the help. I've been trying out that procedure since then and it seems every menu item under the "Sites" menu gets its own subdirectory in the URL. The menu structure I have now is like this:
Sites
-Microsites
--Microsite1
-Tinysites
--Tinysite1
and the URLs come out like yoursite.com/microsites/microsite1 and yoursite.com/tinysites/tinysite1.
Is there any way to make the URLs in that menu structure become yoursite.com/sites/microsites/microsite1 and yoursite.com/sites/tinysites/tinysite1?

[AlexVega]

Hi,

Yes is possible, just create the menu structure, for example for the first url:

- yoursite.com/sites/microsites/microsite1
Sites Section (root menu)
- sites (first level)
-- microsites (second level)
--- microsite1 (menu item for article)

Cheers.

[Neog_Developer]

Ok issue resolved. Our megamenu was screwing up the links. Thanks very much!

[AlexVega]

Glad to help,
Regards.