Using friendly URLs
You can associate friendly URLs with portal pages and labels. You and your users can use these friendly URLs to access specific portal pages or labels by using a human readable path, which is easy to remember.
Before you begin
For a friendly URL to work for a specific page, you must
define a friendly URL name for every page or label in the path of
the portal page hierarchy that leads to that page. You can do this
in the page properties. Friendly URLs take the following general form:
http://host_name:port_number/PortalServer_root/portal/page_id/[!ut/p/encoded_portal_suffix]
The page_id portion
of the friendly URL is made up of the friendly URL names of all pages
in the path of the page hierarchy. This path begins at the content
root and ends with the page for which you want to give your users
a friendly URL.Example: You have a portal page that
is named Products in the user interface and
has a friendly URL name products . Under this Products
page you have another page, which is named Appliances and
has a friendly URL name appliances . To access the
Appliances page, users can type the following friendly URL into the
browser address field:
http://www.example.com:10039/wps/portal/products/appliances
About this task
Procedure
- Access the Manage Pages administration portlet. To do this, click .
- Locate the page for which you want to configure a friendly URL.
- Click the Edit Page Properties icon.
- In the field Friendly URL name, type the friendly name for the page.
- Click OK to save your changes.
- Repeat this procedure for every page or label in the path of the portal page hierarchy that leads to the target page.
What to do next
To make up the full IBM® WebSphere® Portal URL, the portal appends a suffix to that friendly URL. This suffix represents the current state of the page and its components. Some scenarios require short and fully human readable URLs that omit the state information. For information about how to configure short stateless URLs see Using friendly URLs without state information.