Is it possible to use a module with a different url structure than moduleID/controllerID/actionID as indicated in the docs.
More specifically, I am using the user management extension and would like to have a login url something like www.mysite.com/login not the default www.mysite.com/user/user, like it is here: http://www.yiiframework.com/login/.
You just need to specify on your main.php config file that www.mysite.com/login is actually www.mysite.com/user/user. Please see the docs for URL rewriting or browse the forum, there are plenty of posts to tell you how to do that 
Thanks that seems to do the trick.
And for any other noobs like me I updated my config like so:
components'=>array(
'user'=>array(
...
'loginUrl' => '/login', // Changed from /user/user/login
...
),
...
'urlManager'=>array(
'rules'=>array(
'/login'=>'/user/user/login', // Added
...
),
...
),
...
)
extremely helpful stuff. thanks.