Hi there,
I've currently got a site with page such as domain.com/example.htm

I would like move the site into silverstripe, but keep the existing addresses.

For seo reasons, I dont want to just use mod_rewrite to rewrite addresses.

Ie I want to be able to go to domain.com/example.htm and load an actualy silverstripe page, then be able to link to domain.com/example.htm from other pages and menus.

So basically what Im asking is how can I get silverstripe to allow dots in filenames?
I've ripped out some of the code so it won't give me an error message when I try to use dots, but the dots are still being rewritten to dashes somewhere.

Thanks for any help,
Chris

this was a bit of a bitch to get working so thought i'd post what i did to get this working in the end:

I used the nestedurls build and changed in SiteTree.php

// Keep it clean
} else if(isset($this->changed['URLSegment']) && $this->changed['URLSegment']) {
$segment = ereg_replace('[^A-Za-z0-9]+','-',$this->URLSegment);

$segment = ereg_replace('-+','-',$segment);

to

// Keep it clean
} else if(isset($this->changed['URLSegment']) && $this->changed['URLSegment']) {
$segment = ereg_replace('[^A-Za-z0-9]+','-',$this->URLSegment);

$segment = ereg_replace('-+','-',$segment);
//hack
$segment= str_replace("-htm",".htm", $segment);

also to get rid of trailing slashes:
public function Link($action = null) {
$linkwithslash = Controller::join_links(Director::baseURL(), $this->RelativeLink($action));
if ('/' == substr($linkwithslash, strlen($linkwithslash)-1)) $linkwithslash = substr_replace($linkwithslash, '', strlen($linkwithslash)-1); // strip trailing slash

return $linkwithslash;
// return Controller::join_links(Director::baseURL(), $this->RelativeLink($action));
}

Clearly there is a reason why the developers have chosen not to have this in by default (security?) so I'll have a look to see if I can tidy this up and post back later.
This trick could also be used to allow foreign letters in rusl etc.

Thats really cool, I'd prefer to append file names to URL's . It'd be interesting to find out if it is a security issue, it could just a usability issue.