SEO Friendly URLs in own code

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 09/11/2009 14:36:04

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You do not have to do anything to accomplish that.

Dynamicweb parses the URLs before the response is sent. So simply make your URLs as normal: href="Default.aspx?ID=123&some=other&etc" - just make sure you start with Default.aspx?ID=123 - do not start with a / or anything.

Then rest of it is handled by the settings in management center.

Posted on 09/11/2009 15:24:34

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Thanks for your reply.

I have a webusercontrol with gridviewcontrol and I set a asp:Hyperlink control with the value "Default.aspx?ID=93&ProductID..." but the url is not rewritten.

Exmaple testpage : http://www.godoc.se/Default.aspx?ss=tand&ls=Ort+%28Valfritt%29&id=251

The links "Läs mer" are not rewritten.

Regards / Aki

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 09/11/2009 18:35:02

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Hm - just checked it out.

Controls are loaded after Dynamicweb parses the internal URL's - thats a bug we need to fix... It has bug number 4141

The only way to work around it right now is to get the final output of the page and run it through the parser:

Dim

theOutput As String = "" 'Get the output from Default.aspx output placeholder

Dim OutReplacer As New OutputReplacerIf Base.ChkBoolean(Base.GetGs("/Globalsettings/System/Url/ParseContentURL")) Then

theOutput = OutReplacer.ParseURLs(theOutput, Pageview)

End If

Posted on 11/11/2009 10:35:59

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OK.

When could one expect this bug to be fixed?

I have this webusercontrol in a paragraph. Could you just point me in the right direction if I would like to use the workaround. How would I get the output of default.aspx and where do I put that code?

Regards / Aki

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 11/11/2009 11:18:59

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Just made this which should work...

In your Default.aspx.vb file add this sub:

Protected Overrides Sub Render(ByVal writer As System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter)
  Dim myStringuilder As New System.Text.StringBuilder
  Dim myStream As New System.IO.StringWriter(myStringuilder)
  Dim myHtmlWriter As New System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter(myStream)

  MyBase.Render(myHtmlWriter)
  Dim tmp As String = myStringuilder.ToString
  Dim OutReplacer As New OutputReplacer
  If Base.ChkBoolean(Base.GetGs("/Globalsettings/System/Url/ParseContentURL")) Then
   tmp = OutReplacer.ParseURLs(tmp, _pageview)
  End If
  writer.Write(tmp)
End Sub

Make sure _pageview is set in Page_Load... Attached a full zipped Default.aspx.vb file...

Default.aspx.zip

Posted on 11/11/2009 11:19:58

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Thanx for that, I'll give it a try.

/Aki

Posted on 17/11/2009 11:31:30

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Hi again,

I now have the following code in the default.aspc but it still wont rewrite the links. Any ideas?

Dim _pageview As Dynamicweb.Frontend.PageView

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        Dim pv As New Dynamicweb.Frontend.PageView()
        pv.Load()
        _pageview = pv
    End Sub

Protected Overrides Sub Render(ByVal writer As System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter)

        Dim myStringuilder As New System.Text.StringBuilder
        Dim myStream As New System.IO.StringWriter(myStringuilder)
        Dim myHtmlWriter As New System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter(myStream)

        MyBase.Render(myHtmlWriter)
        Dim tmp As String = myStringuilder.ToString
        Dim OutReplacer As New OutputReplacer
        If Base.ChkBoolean(Base.GetGs("/Globalsettings/System/Url/ParseContentURL")) Then
            tmp = OutReplacer.ParseURLs(tmp, _pageview)
        End If
        writer.Write(tmp)

nd Sub

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 17/11/2009 11:37:52

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Your links looks like this:

href="../dev/Default.aspx?ID=93&ProductID=PROD1

They will not be parsed...

Posted on 17/11/2009 11:41:14

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Examplepage : http://www.godoc.se/Default.aspx?id=25&GroupID=GROUP149

The links I am refering to is in the search result. For example:

<a id="_ctl2_search_result_view__ctl1__ctl4_link" class="resultlist_productlink" href="Default.aspx?ID=93&ProductID=33b408710cce4c75b80ba748e33156" target="_top"><img id="_ctl2_search_result_view__ctl1__ctl4_product_image" class="resultlist_image" src="Files/Billeder/Logotyper/halsometern.gif" alt="Hälsometern" border="0" /></a>

/Aki

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 17/11/2009 12:12:28

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Hi

It is because your Default.aspx has this in first line:

<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" validateRequest="false" Codebehind="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="Dynamicweb.Admin.Load" codePage="65001"%>

You have created another assembly where your code behind is - you have to reference that in your Default.aspx

Posted on 17/11/2009 12:43:41

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OK, thanks for your help, I think I got the hang of it now.

Is the "/myfolder/[ProductID/myproductid]/productpage.aspx" the way the url will always be displayed or are there any plans on getting rid of the "[ProductID/myproductid]" part in the future.

I'm asking because I know the customer will ask this. :)

/Aki

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 17/11/2009 12:57:58

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Can not get rid of it - it would cause lots of issues then.

Posted on 18/11/2009 12:23:45

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The code works just fine.

Another, more general, question regarding the URLs though;

If I set up an ecom navigation where the productgroup are generated i get URLs like:

www.mydomain.se/somefolder/myproductpage.aspx

Is there any support for getting the productgroup hierarky in the URL like :

www.mydomain.se/productgroup/subproductgroup/...

Regards / Aki

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 18/11/2009 12:37:05

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Well - the first part of the path will always be a representation of the page structure (yellow part). You have to have pages in that order to have it work.

www.mydomain.se/page1/page2/[qs_information]/NameOfSomething.aspx

You can control the blue part though. The text comes by default from the innertext of th a-tag <a href="">NameOfSomething</a>

That can be overwritten by a title tag:
<a href="" title="ProductGroup1/Group2/Productname">NameOfSomething</a>

Then this would happen:
www.mydomain.se/page1/page2/[qs_information]/ProductGroup1/Group2/Productname.aspx

Posted on 18/11/2009 12:51:17

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Thanks. That TILTE thing might be useful.

In this case I mean a URL to a product group like in this exmaplepae :

http://www.godoc.se/Default.aspx?ID=1108&Purge=True

where the links under the page "Kategorimeny" comes from ecomgroups.

So what I am trying to achieve is a URL like

www.godoc.se/Akutvård/Jourmottagning/productlistpage.aspx

where "Akutvård" och "Jourmottagning" is productgroups from ecom.

Regards / Aki

Posted on 18/11/2009 17:07:49

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I tested the title thing in this page:

http://www.godoc.se/Default.aspx?ID=1108&Purge=True

I dont get thre rewrites even though I have the categoryname in the title attribute? Am I doing something wrong?

Regards / Aki

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 19/11/2009 09:43:31

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That is because you have not enabled module urls on that website...

Posted on 19/11/2009 09:59:28

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The checkbox for "Convert module URLs" is checked?

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 19/11/2009 10:09:33

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Yes it is.... BUT

You still have <%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" validateRequest="false" Inherits="Dynamicweb.Admin.Load" codePage="65001"%> in default.aspx - so your codebehind fix is still not applied on this page... Thats why you still have URLs with ?& etc. in them.

And i do not see any updates of the GoDoc.dll which probably holds the fix?

So move your fix from development machine to production environment first...

Posted on 26/11/2009 13:08:33

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I was stupid. :)

I get the searchresult to work nicly but not the menu on the left.

Regards / Aki

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 02/12/2009 09:09:56

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Your markup is like this:

href='default.aspx?id=25&GroupID=GROUP66'

make it like this:

a href="Default.aspx?ID=25&GroupID=GROUP66"

Posted on 02/12/2009 09:40:30

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I actually changed some the markup to default instead of Default just to test if there were any difference.

But I think the reason is that I use a asp:literal to which I generate the html. If a add a asp:hyperlink the url is processed so I think I need to redo the way the markup is generated.

Thanks for your help.

/Aki

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 02/12/2009 09:49:13

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Casing is not the important thing... But use " instead of '....

Literals do not change the text you add to them.

Posted on 02/12/2009 10:42:42

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Whohoo, its finally working. :)

Discovered one feature though. When you click on a link in the sidemenu, for example http://www.godoc.se/annonser/[GroupID/GROUP228]/Akutvård.aspx then the links in the searchresult are not procecced.

And my guess is that the reason for that is because the markup is rendered like a href="../../../Default.aspx....".

And the reason for that might be that the url looks like the page Akutvård is several folders in a hierarky. Hmm?

/Aki

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