How do you create a shortlink/alias to be directed to a PDF

Hi Leslie, where is the PDF placed? You have it inserted in content tree as a file, you can simply go to Properies ~ URLs and click Add new alias. Then you type the alias to Path or pattern. Take care, the page will not have pdf extension. When you type /testpdf, the address could be http://localhost/testpdf.aspx

If you do not have your PDF in content tree, simply create new page and go to Properities ~ Navigation and enter URL of the pdf to Menu actions / URL redirection. You can set alias to this page then if needed.

Regards, Tom

the PDF is placed in the media library, it isn't part of the content tree.

ok, you will find there Direct path and Permanent link - these are URLs of the PDF. Use one of them and put it to Properties - navigation in newly created page as I have described earlier.

The solution that Tomáš suggested regarding the URL redirection field will unfortunately not work. This setting only changes the URL that appears in navigation web parts but if you attempt to access the redirection URL directly, you will most likely get a 404 response.

If you want to create a "custom URL" for a media file, using IIS redirection is probably the most efficient approach: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/configuration/system.webserver/httpredirect/. There are also some custom modules that could help you implement these redirects in the Kentico UI instead:

• https://devnet.kentico.com/marketplace/modules/custom-301-redirect-module
• https://devnet.kentico.com/marketplace/modules/custom-redirects-module

thanks everyone. I did share your comments with our web coordinator and she has been able to use your suggestions to get it to work.