Solution: How to create shorter paths and urls to content objects
Summary
Information from andre1 in the technical manual reference for siteaccess settings, pathprefix, and from Dirk Schmedding on the list.
Example
You can use the PathPrefix setting in a siteaccess' site.ini to remove parts of the URL. For example:
[SiteAccessSettings] PathPrefix=dir
Old url: www.example.org/dir/subdir/some_content
New url: www.example.org/subdir/some_content
Or alternatively:
[SiteAccessSettings] PathPrefix=dir/subdir/
old url: www.example.org/dir/subdir/some_content
new url: www.example.org/some_content
PathPrefixExclude
If you have a structure like this:
www.example.org/foo
www.example.org/foo/bar
www.example.org/baz
and you set your PathPrefix like this:
[SiteAccessSettings] PathPrefix=foo
You will then be unable to access www.example.org/baz. However, you can use PathPrefixExclude to specify URLs that are not subject to PathPrefix, like this:
[SiteAccessSettings] PathPrefix=foo PathPrefixExclude[] PathPrefixExclude[]=baz
You will need to do this for every URL for which PathPrefix should not apply.