Redirect wrong url alias to 404 error

We have implemented SiteMap and URL-ALIAS for page links.

When user is entering wrong url it's getting redirect to home page.

User hit worng URL "http://www.xyz.com/contact-us-123456"

instaed of "http://www.xyz.com/contact-us"

page will get redirect to home page with response code 200, instead of 404.

We would like to redirect wrong url alias to 404 error. Pls, suggest for same.

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Bowker

Verify that the Error Page is correctly defined in the default.site file.

Look in <branch>/workarea/<name-of-work-area>/sites/<site>/default.site (Press the edit button next to it)

The popup display will show "Start page", "Error Page" - verify it's set correctly.

Are you using Segmentation and have you looked in the catalina and/or livesite.runtime.log files on the runtime server?

mishravik

We have configure error.page as default error page.

But configuration do not redirect wrong url to 404 error. We are using default web.xml file.

Bowker

You didn't say if you are using segmentation or not. Also what do the logs say. In the LSDS access logs, what does the request look like?

Also if you trace the network traffic on the browser (chrome Press F12, select network tab, check "preserve log" check box, visit the page) do you get a 30_ a redirect or do you only get the one request.

If you are fronting this site with apache, verify that tha apache server is not doing the redirect for you.

Rick Poulin

The error.page you used will only be used when LiveSite knows enough about the context to direct the error to that site. So if you had /mysite/index.page, then asking for /mysite/doesnotexist.page should properly render the content of /mysite/error.page.

However if you ask for something outside of the webroot, like /hello/world.jpg, then by default LiveSite doesn't react too great. You can uncomment the appropriate section of the WEB-INF/web.xml which will point to a /iw/errors/InvalidSite.jsp, and that's your "server-wide" error content. In here, you'd also want to add a small scriptlet to do response.setStatus(404).

mishravik

It's working fine with url having (*.page) extension.

We are facing when we are using URL-ALISE along with SiteMap.

When user is entering wrong url it's getting redirect to home page.

User hit worng URL "http://www.xyz.com/contact-us-123456"

instaed of "http://www.xyz.com/contact-us"

bhas1234

We are trying to implement same funcationality in LSDS weblogic server, but its working. Can you please share the steps.

How do to implement in this ?

bhas1234

Hi Mark,

Can you share the web.xml response code, we are also facing issue.

regards

Rick Poulin

bhas1234 wrote:
Can you share the web.xml response code, we are also facing issue.

It's already there.. you just need to uncomment it.

Also, I'm not actually Mark Twain.

<error-page>
   <error-code>500</error-code>
   <location>/iw/errors/Error.jsp</location>
</error-page>

<error-page>
   <error-code>404</error-code>
   <location>/iw/errors/InvalidSite.jsp</location>
</error-page>

<error-page>
   <error-code>490</error-code>
   <location>/iw/errors/InvalidSite.jsp</location>
</error-page>

bhas1234

We have uncommented, but its also not working.

bhas1234

We have uncommented the mention below location, but its not working. Can you please suggest in this. Any other way

/App/Interwoven/LiveSiteDisplayServices/runtime/web/WEB-INF/web.xml

/App/weblogic/user_projects/domains/LSDS/servers/sbi/tmp/_WL_user/iw-runtime/5pu9pe/war/WEB-INF/web.xml

<error-page>
<error-code>404</error-code>
<location>/iw/errors/Error.jsp</location>
</error-page>

<error-page>
<error-code>490</error-code>
<location>/iw/errors/InvalidSite.jsp</location>
</error-page>

<error-page>
<error-code>500</error-code>
<location>/iw/errors/Error.jsp</location>
</error-page>

nipper

Can you define "not working" ?

tail -f catalina.out and then test it a few times.

Check the other logs as well. Post anything that is relavent.

nipper

Also, is it even getting past the web server (Apache or whatever you use) ? If Apache flags an error, it never gets to LSDS

There may be information in the access log.

Rick Poulin

Also make sure you've restarted the webapp, as web.xml changes won't be applied otherwise.

** note that this is the way to handle error page mappings in Tomcat. Weblogic may have other settings overriding these.

bhas1234

we haven't installed any apache server on Weblogic. is there any other way for Weblogic. Can you please suggest in this.

PFA Screen shot,

nipper

Your sample seems to be going directly to WLS and not through a web server (though IBM usually includes Apache with WLS branded as IBM Web Server).

Your screenshot is of no value because there is no context.

You appear to go to some URL and display a custom (and rather ugly) error page.