How to change the permalink structure in TYPO3? - typo3

I have a page which structure is like this:
root
..prod
page.php
I can access it with http://localhost/index.php?id=41.
But i want to acess it like this:
http://localhost/prod/title-of-page
How to do that?

Use RealURL or CoolURI extension - they are so old and well known that when you write typo3 friendly urls in your search engine you finding only these two.
Note: personally I prefer RealURL

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Ensure generated links in TYPO3 use the absolute path

I have a website in TYPO3, it has a header and footer and a load of generated page links.
Is there any parameters or TypoScript that can be used that would enable all links to have absolute paths? e.g. the item that generates the menu might look like
<f:cObject includeAbsolutePath="true" typoscriptObjectPath="lib.content_subMenu" />
I basically need all page links to be absolute.
I am using Typo3 V7.6
config.absRefPrefix might be your solution. But this could lead to drawbacks as well, e.g. in multi-domain environments. But in that case, you might work with conditions to set a proper domain name.
See details in the documentation.

Typo3 plugin $_GET parameters encoding

I need multiple $_GET parameters for my plugin. It results in rather long and ugly url which is neither readable nor user-friendly.
I have installed the realurl extension. It seems like I have to configure realurl for every page. Is there a simple way to solve it?
What are the methods available to inject data into controller rather than GET parameter?
See realurl documentation:
https://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/extensions/realurl/Realurl/Configuration/UrlEnDecodingBackground/Index.html
Or have a look at Georg Ringers documentation for example news extensions:
https://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/extensions/news/AdministratorManual/BestPractice/Realurl/Index.html

Creating a new page template in Typo3

I'm using Typo3 for the first time and have been asked to update a site built on it.
Making changes to existing templates so far has been OK since they were mainly CSS changes or replacing images. Now though I need to create a couple of new page templates.
What's the easiest way to go about this? The existing site has a home.html and layout.hmlt in the fileadmin directory. Do I need to create a new html file there, if so how do I use this as a new template for some of my pages?
I'm coming from a mainly WordPress background in terms of CMS (I've nearly given in a recoded the site as a WordPress site since I think it would be quicker at this stage) but I'd really prefer to figure this out.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I'm pulling my hair out trying to read through the documentation and getting nowhere. The site is using Typo3 version 4.4.6
Thanks!
How you add a new template to your page depends on how templating is handled. Sadly TYPO3 has a poor templating out of the box, so there is most likely an extension that does the job on your site.
Probably one of these:
automaketemplate
templa_voila
flux & fluidpages
Check if one of these extension is installed and add a new page template according to the extensions manual or specify your question afterwards.
Edit:
If plain TYPO3 was used, you'll find something like
page = PAGE
page.10 = TEMPLATE
page.10 {
file = fileadmin/myTemplate.html
}
in your Typoscript. You can add tmplate files like the ones that are already there. To use a different template on a page, you have to replace the page.10.file with the template you want to use. This can be done with a new template record (crated in backend via the template module). But this is a rather anoying procedure to change the template, because you have to create each time you want to change the page template for a page and its children. That is why mostly extensions are used for this.
The out of the box situation gets better with newer TYPO3 versions but in 4.4.6 there are no Backend Layouts that could be uses for a template switch ot something like that.
In Addition to change the mere file you have to adjust the subparts or marker that are filled with the content. You'll find that configured in your TypoScript as well

using fluidcontent (fluid powered TYPO3) in a TYPO3 multidomain setup

I have an TYPO3 installation with two domains. Each domain has its own provider extension and static template file.
Example:
domain1.com -> providerextension1
domain2.com -> providerextension2
Is it possible to hide the fluidcontent FCEs from providerextension1 in domain2.com?
Example from Bootstrappackage (https://github.com/Ecodev/bootstrap_package)
As soon as an extension has included fluidcontent FCEs (like the fluidcontent_bootstrap) it will add these to all domains, also when the TypoScript Configuration is not included.
If I understand the question completely, the answer is no: you cannot in TYPO3 make your TypoScript that is available in the backend, depend on the domain name being used. There is a way to make TypoScript conditions for the frontend output (for example a condition to only add template paths for your provider A when domain is X), but the same is not possible in the backend.
You are of course welcome to add a feature request on our issue tracker - I don't see any immediate problem with a feature to toggle on and off particular provider extensions based on for example a TypoScript setting. But you should keep in mind the limitation mentioned above since it implies that in order to achieve your desired goal you must place each domain record on a page tree of its own and closely manage the TypoScript that controls the available Provider Extensions on each page tree.
Put shortly: even if you get this feature request filled, it may not be the solution you want and you may have to restructure your pages and domains to get where you need to be.
The problem is, that the FCE are defined in the "ext_tables.php" and "ext_localconf.php" and these files are always loaded when the extension is enabled.
You can alter "ext_tables/ext_localconf" with a simple condition like
if($_SERVER['server_name'] == "www.yourdomain.com") {
//init FCEs here
}
You can try to override the template paths for one domain with an empty value or at least a path to an empty directory. Maybe flux is smart enough to ignore empty template paths.

TYPO3 does not resolve url correctly

I'm pretty new to TYPO3 and currently stuck with the following issue:
I copied the templates from another webpage that is currently in business.
When I'm on the startpage of my homepage (www.domain.com) and click on one of the links it contains I always get an error 404. The link that is generated looks like this.
http://www.domain.com/testpage.440.0.html
So I guess something like RealUrl was in use on the webpage that I copied from? Do I understand this right? I don't see that RealUrl is installed though.
However If i manually change this link to
http://www.domain.com/?id=440.0.html
the site is being created.
How does Typo3 know to generate a page when it receives the first version of these two links?
Does not really look like a standard out-of-the-box REAL URL url. That would rather have been /testpage-404.html . So maybe the problem is somewhere else, could be:
simulate static (check if that extension is running). A common mistake is to run real url an simulate static at the same time. If you do not need speaking urls for the moment, just uninstall simulate static.
make sure you add a domain to your shortcut. Use the the list modul and select the root shortcut. Then click create new record, select domain. and enter your domain there. Flush all the caches and try again.
If you'd post your TS Code (of the root shortcut page) here, I could probably tell what's going wrong.
real url configuration typically use .htaccess files.. maybe that file still contains information from the original destination.
check if the root ts contains some baseUrl statement
Which version of TYPO3 are you using?
HTH, but feel free to post more infos.
If your typoscript template is expecting to find realurl and its not installed as a plugin, that could be the cause. You'll need to either install it, or find the settings in the TS template and remove them.
Try the template object browser to look for it (use the template tool, click to the site root, then use the drop down menu in the r/h pane to choose the Template Obect Browser.)
How does Typo3 know to generate a page when
it receives the first version of these two links?
Any page request that it doesn't understand will give a 404 error.