Redirect an url/path/pattern to a specific page with in the kentico website

Vinod Vutla asked on June 22, 2016 14:51

How can I assign the following url to the root page as alias path in my website. http://domainname.com/memberguide/index.php#!home.html.

When I browse the above url it should redirect to http://domainname.com(home page for exmaple)

By default few of the characters are forbidden in our kentico system, so I added following key in the web.config to exclude . and # characters. <add key="CMSForbiddenURLValues" value="$\/:?"<>|&%'[] =" />

But IIS is not allowing me to browse .php or .html extensions. Can I truly redirect the above url to the root page, please assist me.

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Vinod Vutla answered on April 30, 2018 07:00

Thanks for your Help Dawid.

I did it as mentioned below

Allowed the kentico url settings to accept the extensions like .htm, .html, .php etc.
IIS Rewrite module was used to write few rules to match a pattern and then trigger a 301 redirection
Have written JavaScript to handle the #url, because asp.net itself ignores the path after the hash in request context.

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Dawid Jachnik answered on June 22, 2016 15:12 (last edited on June 22, 2016 15:27)

Hello,

You can't do it without little customization.

First you need to enable the custom url extensions like .php https://docs.kentico.com/display/K9/Extensionless+and+custom+URLs (Using custom URL extensions )

Then you can setup the redirect from .php to other one within Kentico.

But this customization doesn't work for index.php#!home.html to make this work I think you should use rewrite IIS module, there you can specify more advanced path expressions. http://www.iis.net/learn/extensions/url-rewrite-module/creating-rewrite-rules-for-the-url-rewrite-module

Or just simply use the module from Marketplace http://devnet.kentico.com/articles/url-redirection

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Vinod Vutla answered on June 22, 2016 16:23 (last edited on June 22, 2016 16:54)

Dear Support,

With https://docs.kentico.com/display/K9/Extensionless+and+custom+URLs (Using custom URL extensions ) I can redirect urls with .php or .html extension.

If I have a url like http://www.domainname.com/resorts#, aliaspath converting '#' character into '-' because '#' is a forbidden character.

I tried to remove the # from default forbidden characters by adding the key in web.config. Now when I browse the url http://www.domainname.com/resorts#, its giving 404 page not found error with in the kentico site(its not an IIS 404 error). How can I handle the above type of urls which contains forbidden characters.

Can I rewrite the complex patterns which contains forbidden characters using url rewritting module?

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Vinod Vutla answered on June 22, 2016 20:06

Hi Team,

Let me know your feedback on this issue.

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