Create a Friendly URL on home page

Hi All

I have a problem with home page URL / friendly URL and I'll appreciate very much if anyone can give me some tips.

Our environment setup have site-name disabled.

So, in our preview site, the home page's URL is:
http://host:port/digital-site

and in live site, the home page's URL is: (note we disabled the site name)
http://host:port

Our problem is, we use the following code to generate a link to our home page:
Site site = rc.getCurrentSite();
Channel home = site.getHomeChannel();
link = getChannelLink(home, rc);

As a result, we can we run this code in preview and it generated correct link:
http://host:port/digital-site

But when we run the same code in live, since our site-name is disabled, so it
generated a non-FURL link:

http://host:port/portal/site/digital-site/menuitem.4a13298d2a4d1324642d30959d407ea0/?vgnextoid=e58180b3a346a210VgnVCM1000000100007fRCRD&vgnextchannel=82c180b3a346a210VgnVCM1000000100007fRCRD

And that link won't comply with our business requirement, it is absolutly
critical that a link to home page need to be readable.

I tried generat a Friendly URL to our home channel, which kind of solve the
problem, but not entirely.

So, I created the following FURL linked to our home channel:
/Home

And it worked, the following code:
Site site = rc.getCurrentSite();
Channel home = site.getHomeChannel();
link = getChannelLink(home, rc);

is smart enough to pick up the FURL form, http://host:port/Home, but that's
still not what we want. At end of the day we just want:
http://host:port

But I can't generate a friendly URL contain nothing. The system won't take a
FURL that is empty.

Is there a proper way to achieve this?

Thank you for your time.

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Venkata_Subba_Rao_Chikatimarla

Bill,

It seems the problem is with FURL configuration on your delivery stage. Can you please see whether FURL is working for any other channels on delivery stage or not? If yes, what are the URL for those channels?

Regards,

Subbarao

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Create a Friendly URL on home page

Posted by bill.tai@telecom.co.nz (Tai, Bill ) On 2011/05/15 19:37

Hi All

Our problem is, we use the following code to generate a link to our home page:
Site site = rc.getCurrentSite();
Channel home = site.getHomeChannel();
link = getChannelLink(home, rc);

As a result, we can we run this code in preview and it generated correct link:
http://host:port/digital-site

But when we run the same code in live, since our site-name is disabled, so it
generated a! non-FURL link:

http://host:port/portal/site/digital-site/menuitem.4a13298d2a4d1324642d30959d407ea0/?vgnextoid=e58180b3a346a210VgnVCM1000000100007fRCRD&vgnextchannel=82c180b3a346a210VgnVCM1000000100007fRCRD

And that link won't comply with our business requirement, it is absolutly
critical that a link to home page need to be readable.

I tried generat a Friendly URL to our home channel, which kind of solve the
problem, but not entirely.

So, I created the following FURL linked to our home channel:
/Home

And it worked, the following code:
Site site = rc.getCurrentSite();
Channel home = site.getHomeChannel();
link =! getChannelLink(home, rc);

is smart enough to p! ick up the FURL form, http://host:port/Home, but that's
still not what we want. At end of the day we just want:
http://host:port

But I can't generate a friendly URL contain nothing. The system won't take a
FURL that is empty.

Is there a proper way to achieve this?

Thank you for your time.

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Pulla_Rao_Atmakuri

Hi Bill,

The point to be clear about FURL is , the first token of URL should be <SiteName>. on delivery it is not included by default, this (<SiteName>) needs to be prepend by either webserver or default sitename property.

IMHO, behavior on your is the default behavior of FURL for mgmt and the code is causing some issue for delivery.

The solution is : write a custom Mapper that will prepend <SiteName> while resolving the link and print the link without site name.

This Mapper also needs to take care of mgmt and delivery relevant FURLs. deploy the FURL as default web-app.

Thanks and Regards,

Pulla Rao Atmakuri.

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RE Create a Friendly URL on home page

Posted by cchikati (Chikatimarla, Venkata Subba Rao) On 2011/05/16 01:55

Bill,

Regards,

Subbarao

Create a Friendly URL on home page

Posted by bill.tai@telecom.co.nz (Tai, Bill ) On 2011/05/15 19:37

Hi All

Our problem is, we use the following code to generate a link to our home page:
Site site = rc.getCurrentSite();
Channel home = site.getHomeChannel();
link = getChannelLink(home, rc);

As a result, we can we run this code in preview and it generated correct link:
http://host:port/digital-site

But when we run the same code in live, since our site-name is disabled, so it
generated a! ! non-FURL link:

http://host:port/portal/site/digital-site/menuitem.4a13298d2a4d1324642d30959d407ea0/?vgnextoid=e58180b3a346a210VgnVCM1000000100007fRCRD&vgnextchannel=82c180b3a346a210VgnVCM1000000100007fRCRD

And that link won't comply with our business requirement, it is absolutly
critical that a link to home page need to be readable.

I tried generat a Friendly URL to our home channel, which kind of solve the
problem, but not entirely.

So, I created the following FURL linked to our home channel:
/Home

And it worked, the following code:
Site site = rc.getCurrentSite();
Channel home = site.getHomeChannel();
link =! getChannelLink(home, rc);

is smart enough to p! ick up the FURL form, http://host:port/Home, but that's
stil! l not what we want. At end of the day we just want:
http://host:port

But I can't generate a friendly URL contain nothing. The system won't take a
FURL that is empty.

Is there a proper way to achieve this?

Thank you for your time.

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eLink User

What does your getChannelLink method look like? link = getChannelLink(home, rc);

Have you tried using com.vignette.ext.templating.util.XSLPageUtil buildLinkURI?

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Create a Friendly URL on home page

Posted by bill.tai@telecom.co.nz (Tai, Bill ) On 2011/05/15 19:37

Hi All

Our problem is, we use the following code to generate a link to our home page:
Site site = rc.getCurrentSite();
Channel home = site.getHomeChannel();
link = getChannelLink(home, rc);

As a result, we can we run this code in preview and it generated correct link:
http://host:port/digital-site

But when we run the same code in live, since our site-name is disabled, so it
generated a! non-FURL link:

http://host:port/portal/site/digital-site/menuitem.4a13298d2a4d1324642d30959d407ea0/?vgnextoid=e58180b3a346a210VgnVCM1000000100007fRCRD&vgnextchannel=82c180b3a346a210VgnVCM1000000100007fRCRD

And that link won't comply with our business requirement, it is absolutly
critical that a link to home page need to be readable.

I tried generat a Friendly URL to our home channel, which kind of solve the
problem, but not entirely.

So, I created the following FURL linked to our home channel:
/Home

And it worked, the following code:
Site site = rc.getCurrentSite();
Channel home = site.getHomeChannel();
link =! getChannelLink(home, rc);

is smart enough to p! ick up the FURL form, http://host:port/Home, but that's
still not what we want. At end of the day we just want:
http://host:port

But I can't generate a friendly URL contain nothing. The system won't take a
FURL that is empty.

Is there a proper way to achieve this?

Thank you for your time.

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