URL alias Livesite

Hi ,
Under Site Map if I specify URL Alias for any page,then in Livesite runtime the page is not rendered as per its alias given.I have tried both with absolute and relative URL as the URL alias value , but it does not work.

What is the format expected for URL alias field?

Thanks in advance,
deepti

Did you deploy the sitemap to runtime?

Thanks for your reply
Yes I have deployed sitemap to rumtime !!

How are you creating your hyperlink(s) using whatever alias(es) you have defined?

I am not creating any hyperlink.Doesthe URL alias on page not sufficient to redirect it to the alias page URL?If no,what hyperlink needs to specified then ?

Thanks,
deepti

Well then tell me 2 things:

1. What is the URL Alias defined for your page?
2. What URL have you tried in the browser and what's the outcome?

Under sitemap I cretaed a node ,used sitepublisher page xyz.page as the LinkPage and tried URL alias both with absolute and relative URL combinations as below :
1.pagename.page
2.site_directory/pagename.page
3.http://server-name:1776/site_directory/pagename.page

At runtime when I browse the xyz.page as
http://server-name:1776/site_directory/xyz.page
there is no redirection to URL alias page, i could only see xyz.pgae only.

Thanks,
deepti

Does URl Alias field accept value like this
/prdoucts/test.page

BIRT loopback log.txt

If your alias is pagename.page then try http://www.mysite.com/pagename.page in your runtime.

URL Alias does not support /xxxx/****.page patterns. If you wanted to do this, you could put js on the page and have it do a client side redirect to the page you really wanted to goto. It only supports directory names and is always relative to the domain name. It does not do redirects to arbitary urls and file names.

URL Alias does not support /xxxx/****.page patterns. If you wanted to do this, you could put js on the page and have it do a client side redirect to the page you really wanted to goto. It only supports directory names and is always relative to the domain name. It does not do redirects to arbitary urls and file names.

Miro is completely correct on this. It slipped my mind that you cannot have .page in your URL alias.

Hi,
Thanks for the reply !!
One More query related to URL ALIAS

If i have following node details:
Node1:
Page : Test.page
QueryString: title=helloworld
URL ALIAS : HelloWorld

Now if i try http://www.mysite.com/HelloWorld
Does the alias will give the page Test.page mapped on node with the QSD(query string data) values as well?

Thanks,
Deepti

Yes that is correct .The query string values in the node which has the matching alias are passed with the request when the target page is rendered. They should be available to the components on that page just as any other request parameter is available.

Any idea what could be the reason for not getting the QSD when i hit the alias.

Thanks,
Deepti

What are you expecting and how are you attempting to get them? They will not be on the url in the browser if that's what you are expecting, it's all done in the request on the server side when it resolves to the page you assigned to the node with the alias.

Also, what version of LS are you running? It could have been something that I might have fixed in a later version.

Miro

In the .page i have external call to java class which actually read the request context parameters and displays the result on the page.

Thanks,
Deepti

pdfGenerationLog.txt

That should work in the external. What version are you running? I suspect it might be an issue which was resolved shortly after the feature was released.