Vanity URLs through external

Hi all,

I've a requirement of setting vanity URLs for pages in the website. I cannot add the pages in the sitemap as nodes and then set their URL aliases.

Is there any way that I can assign a vanity URL to a page through externals? Page is loading a DCR based on the query string parameter. I need to assign the vanity URL based on the query string parameter. For example: If the URL is :

http://someHost:1776/xxxxxxxx/allProducts.page?type=Catalog Smiley Tongue

roduct&dcr=templatedata/Catalog/Product/data/N/NICChip.xml

and I need to change it to something like this
http://someHost:1776/xxxxxxxx/allProducts.page?NICChip

Is there any way to set this through externals as we do for page titles?

Thanks

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vpatel

If you don't want to you use the URL Alias feature provided by SitePub then the other way to do this would be by web server (apache / iis) level rewrites.

Your question about vanity URL through external: can it be done? Sure you can control / create vanity URLs for any links / URLs that are generated dynamically by a component. You can come with some sort of "mapping logic" to do that based on your example in your original post. Big thing to consider will be that any links / URLs entered by the users manually then they have to be entered in the "vanity format" as well.

AlexC

Some level of URL remapping can be done at controller level but they would all have to have at least the site base.

Your best bet as Viral stated above would be to use Apache rewrite module (mod_rewrite I believe).

PayalGarg

Thanks a ton for your replies. I'll dig this some more to find out the possible solutions.

Thanks
Payal

tanguyr

You should also look at the URL Rewrite Filter [1] - equivalent functionality to webserver level url rewriters like mod_rewrite etc, but runs directly in your servlet container as part of the livesite runtime application.

[1] http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/