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Jimmyt1988
Jimmyt1988

Reputation: 21126

Notes 9, rewriting URLs

How do you rewrite a URL in Notes 9 XPages.

Let's say I have:

www.example.com/myapp.nsf/page-name

How do I get rid of that .nsf part:

www.example.com/page-name

I don't want to do lots of manual re-direct because my pages are dynamically formed like wordpress.

I've read this: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-Web_site_rules/

It does not address the issue.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 952

Answers (4)

Dennis Kronbügel
Dennis Kronbügel

Reputation: 114

You can do it with a mix of subsitutions, "URL-pattern" and paritial refresh.

I had the same problem, my customers wants clean URLs for SEO.

My URLs now looks like these:

www.myserver.de/products/financesoftware/anyproduct

First i used one subsitution to cover the folder, database and xpage part of the URL. My substitution: "/products" -> "/web/techdemo.nsf/product.xsp"

Problem with these is, any update on this site (with in redirect mode) and the user gets back the "dirty" URL. I solved this with the use of paritial refreshes only.

Last but not least, i uses my own slash pattern at the end of the xpage call (.xsp) In my case thats the "/financesoftware/anyproduct/" part. I used facesContext.getExternalContext().getRequestPathInfo() to resolve that URL part.

Currently i used good old RegExp to get the slash separated parameters back out of the url, but i am investigating a REST solution at the moment.

Upvotes: 1

stwissel
stwissel

Reputation: 20384

To completely control what is going in and out put your Domino behind an Apache HTTP and use mod_rewrite. On Domino 9.0 Windows you can use mod_domino

Upvotes: 2

Per Henrik Lausten
Per Henrik Lausten

Reputation: 21709

If you use substitution rules like the following, you can get rid of the db.nsf part and call your XPages directly as example.com/xpage1.xsp:

Rule (substitution): /db.nsf/* -> /db.nsf/*
Rule (substitution): /* -> /db.nsf/*

However, you have to "manually" generate your URLs without the db.nsf part in e.g. menus because the XPages runtime will include the db.nsf part in the URLs if you use for instance the openPage simple action.

Upvotes: 4

Steve Zavocki
Steve Zavocki

Reputation: 1840

I haven't actually done this, but just saw the option yesterday while looking for something else. In your Xpage, go to All Properties, and look at 'navigationRules' and 'pageBaseUrl'. I think you will find what you are looking for there.

Upvotes: 0

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