Routing

The basic internal routing in Mame is quite easily explained. When you for example create a page with an alias contact, it results in a contact.html file (for download or deployment). And if you link from your homepage to it the link is just "/contact.html".

So as long as you want all files in the same top folder, the routing in Mame is straight forward and easy. But when you look at the URL of this site (documentation/routing), this is quite a bit more sophisticated. That is because aliases support slashes ("/") in it. And for every slash a sub folder is created. So this page HTML file is actually in two sub folders (documentation and in then routing) and in this file is the index.html. This allows for URLs without the .html suffix without any server software extensions, like mod_rewrite for Apache.

That leaves the question on how the documentation page ("/documentation") alias is working, as the documentation is not below a sub-folder. For this special case Mame offers a workaround, just add /index to the end of your alias (e.g. documentation/index).