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Redirect URLs that contain multiple forward slashes and/or uppercase letters

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Roald Haahr
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Posted on 21/12/2020 10:51:25

Hi,

Is there an easy way to avoid multiple forward slashes in DW 9 URLs? For example http://example.com//test and http://example.com//////////test should both redirect to http://example.com/test for SEO purposes to avoid duplicate content. And while we are at it, is there an easy way to redirect patterns like http://example.com/TeSt to http://example.com//test?

I read somewhere that it is best to handle these case in the global.asax file. However, DW 9 does not allow that option, so rewrite in web.config the way to go, or is there a magic checkbox somewhere in the backend that will take care of it?

Best regards,
Roald, Novicell


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Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 21/12/2020 11:13:25
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Wow, SEO experts always find a way to cheat customers out of money they do not need to spend... This one was new smiley. Not even Google handles that: https://developers.google.com////search/docs/beginner/seo-starter-guide or Amazon: https://www.amazon.de///-/en/b?node=1624983031&ref=unrec_bubbler_2_en&pf_rd_r=5XPW3GC09C8QK46A348F&pf_rd_p=7e0d039c-ea18-4c52-9542-03fbc8b0c888&pd_rd_r=9a4c282b-014e-4bd4-a8f8-b1cfa323f61f&pd_rd_w=YacdU&pd_rd_wg=bY5Ev&ref_=pd_gw_unk - I like their SEO urls by the way!

  1. You can do whatever you want in Global.asax and make your own - just remember to call our versions of each of the methods. NOT recommended though.
  2. You can maybe do this in web.config. Be careful - you can easily break something.
  3. You can use a notification subscriber from the application stack: https://doc.dynamicweb.com/api/html/d5ca8c8b-6af4-5bf1-8086-81de1f7037a3.htm

I would recommend 3.

Dynamicweb should redirect to lowercase automatically: https://www.dynamicweb.com/proDucTs - that redirect comes from the "Ensure unique path" checkbox, see dump.

So what would you do about things like example.com/?doesnotexist=JustSomethingMadeUp

Anyways - happy coding!

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Roald Haahr
Posted on 21/12/2020 13:16:22
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My exact thoughts :) Thanks for the recommendation

 

 
Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 21/12/2020 15:31:49
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When you look into this, you might discover that you cannot do this by code. IIS seems to remove the // on the way in, so you cannot detect this (which also explains why it even works with //).

So maybe a redirect rule in web.config in system.webserver section will be able to fix it - if the // has not been removed already.

 

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