AEM 6.2 Dispatcher rewrite rule

[surendarm613658]

Hi All,

Can someone please help to overcome this rewrite rule problem? I have an Level4 category page and want to redirect to an specific page.

Below is the page hierarchy - added URL of each pages

Outdoors -> Outdoor Tools & Equipment -> Lawn Mowers -> Robotic Lawn Mowers

• First I click Outdoors page -> https://dtq.com/c/Departments
• then Outdoor Tools & Equipment page -> https://dtq.com/c/Outdoor-tools-equipment-Outdoors
• then Lawn Mowers page -> https://dtq17.com/c/Lawn-mowers-Outdoor-tools-equipment-Outdoors
• finally Robotic Lawn Mowers

When I click "Robotic Lawn Mowers" page it goes to below URL.
https://dtq.com/pl/Robotic-lawn-mowers-Lawn-mowers-Outdoor-tools-equipment-Outdoors/4294612702

What I need is, when I click "Robotic Lawn Mowers" page it should redirect to below URL. Instead of 'pl' it should redirect to 'c'

https://dtq.com/c/Robotic-lawn-mowers-Lawn-mowers-Outdoor-tools-equipment-Outdoors

Below are some sample rewrite rules which we have for l2/l3 category pages:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/dtq/(mobile|desktop)/c/Departments$
RewriteRule ^/dtq/(mobile|desktop)/c/Departments$ /content/dtq/$1/en_us/Departments.$1.html [PT]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/dtq/(mobile|desktop)/c/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^/dtq/(mobile|desktop)/c/(.*)$ /content/dtq/$1/en_us/Departments/$2.$1.html [PT]

[surendarm613658]

Hi All - Anybudy knows how to achieve this ?

[praveenjain]

These rules does not gives us the clue how "c" getting changed to "pl". Can you mention the rootcause/rule from where it getting changed so we can correct that. Also do mention short url to full url mapping to understand content structure which might help.

Regards

Praveen

[surendarm613658]

Thanks Praveen for the response. /c/ content is coming from author and /pl/ page contents are coming from separate Nodejs code. So only till /c/ is under AEM scope. I looking for a rewrite rule on dispatcher that redirects to 'c'  URL when I click "Robotic Lawn Mowers" - https://dtq.com/pl/Robotic-lawn-mowers-Lawn-mowers-Outdoor-tools-equipment-Outdoors/4294612702

[SureshDhulipudi]

did you try by giving complete URL (hard coded) ?, if that works , then you can apply regular expressions

[surendarm613658]

I have tried below rule but it is not working still...

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/dtq/pl/Robotic-lawn-mowers-Lawn-mowers$
RewriteRule ^/dtq/pl/Robotic-lawn-mowers-Lawn-mowers$  /content/dtq/desktop/en_us/Departments/Outdoors/Outdoor-tools-equipment/Lawn-mowers/Robotic-lawn-mowers.desktop.html [PT]

[praveenjain]

As you are looking for a rewrite rule on dispatcher that redirects to 'c'  URL

- https://dtq.com/pl/Robotic-lawn-mowers-Lawn-mowers-Outdoor-tools-equipment-Outdoors/4294612702

Try below:

#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/pl/(.*)
RewriteRule "^/pl/(.*)\$" "/c/$1" [R,L]

[surendarm613658]

Yes Praveen. Sure will give it a try. Can you please clarify what does $1 & [R,L] refer too?

[praveenjain]

"^/pl/(.*)\$" -> This means what is present after /pl/ copy it

and replace url with "/c/$1"

when $1 will be replaced by copied content.

R means rewrite, L flag (Last) which means it won't have to traverse a huge list of rules like JCR Resolving has to do. 

[praveenjain · Accepted solution]

Hope, that rule worked, if not

Here I have listed re-write rules samples, you can get more ideas on rules from this

It contains details about flags too.

https://aemhub.blogspot.com/2020/12/basic-dispatcher-url-rewrites-rules.html

[surendarm613658]

Thanks Praveen, will revert back with an update once i complete my verification