The Configuration Wizard option for Modifying Site URLs
for Search Engine Optimization makes it possible to remove navigational
state information from your site URLs site wide. To enable friendly
URLs without state information at the page level, you must complete
extra steps after you use this option.
Procedure
- Configure your site URLs with the option for Modifying
Site URLs for Search Engine Optimization in the Configuration Wizard.
To remove navigational state information in your URLs, select No for
the option Do you want your portal URL to contain navigational
state information. After you successfully complete your
configuration, navigational state information is removed site wide.
To
remove navigational state information at the level of an individual
page and its child pages, set the page parameter generate.stateless.urls to true for that page. To keep navigational state
information for a page, set the parameter to false.
For information about how to use that parameter, read about the property generate.stateless.urls in Configuration Service.
- Define friendly URL names for pages. You can
configure a friendly URL at the page level from the site toolbar or
from Manage Pages administration portlet.
- To define friendly URLs for your pages from Administration,
go to Using friendly URLs
- To define friendly URLs for your pages from the site toolbar, use the following instructions:
- Turn on edit mode from the action bar. Site manager opens automatically. If site manager does not open automatically, click the site manager icon
to open it.
- In site manager, click the page for which you are defining a friendly URL name. Then, click the
context menu icon
.
- From the context menu, click Open Page Settings.
- From the General tab, click Edit by Edit Page
Properties.
- In the Friendly URL name entry field, enter the name of the page as you
want it to appear in the friendly URL.
- Click Save.
- Associate pages that render web content with the default site area of that web content.
Complete the following steps to generate friendly URLs for that web content:
- Turn on edit mode from the action bar. Site manager opens automatically. If site manager does
not open automatically, click the site manager icon to open it.
- In site manager, click the page that contains the web content viewer that is used to render the
web content you want to generate friendly URLs for. Then, click the context menu icon.
- From the context menu, click Open Page Settings.
- From Details tab, click Edit by Default site area.
- On the Manage Associated Content page, click Add web content to select
the site area of your web content or one of the parent site areas.
- From the list of associated content, select the newly added site area association by clicking
the radio button.
- Click OK.
- Optional: You might want
to present language-specific portal pages with stateless friendly
URLs to your site visitors. In this case, structure your portal site
to reflect which pages are targeted for specific countries or regions.
You can create a node for a specific page, and then create language-specific
child pages under that node. For example, in the node home, you create pages in English,
French, and German. Your site visitors can then access the page in their preferred language by using
one of the following friendly
URLs:
http://www.cntserv_exmp.com/wps/home/en/shop
http://www.cntserv_exmp.com/wps/home/fr/shop
http://www.cntserv_exmp.com/wps/home/de/shop
What to do next
You can configure themes to display only short URLs without
state information. You can configure pages that use that theme to
display friendly URLs.
Remove the URL generation filter if you previously
installed it. For information, read Example 2:
Generate a friendly URL for web content.