AEM : How to extend the vanity URL?

[ForrestLi]

Hi all,

Page : /content/home/welcome

Vanity URL : wel

If I enter the https://docker.demo.com/wel , The browser will redirect me to https://docker.demo.com/content/home/welcome.html.  But I want browser redirect me to the https://docker.demo.com/home/welcome.html .

Does anyone know how to extend Vanity to achieve this function?

Thanks,

Forrest

[Harwinder-singh]

@ForrestLi 

You can refer to this article to achieve this .

https://docs.adobe.com/content/help/en/experience-manager-64/deploying/configuring/resource-mapping....

[VeenaVikraman]

I think as @Harwinder-singh you might have to look at resource mapping.

[berliant]

There are many ways to achieve your requirement. If you need to redirect all pages, you might want to do that activities son Apache/Dsipacther level.

If this is for some pages only you can employ Vanity URL field on the Page Properties dialog 

[Surabhi_Katiyar · Accepted solution]

there are a couple of solutions to achieve this. 

One of the solutions is:-

1. Create a servlet in AEM to create the vanity paths present under the project hierarchy. 

2. Create a shell script in apache to hit the above AEM servlet on a periodic basis and save it in a file(vanity_urls.txt) on apache.

3. Create the re-write rules at the Apache level in httpd.conf file.

These rules will check whether the path requested exists in the file (vanity_urls.txt) and based on the result will do the shortening conditionally.