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junc70220741
October 16, 2015
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Getting the hostname using Sightly

  • October 16, 2015
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Hello

Is it possible to get the hostname of the current page? 

currentPage.getPath() only returns something like '/path/path/page' but I also need to find the hostname, for example, 'https://www.google.com'

Is it possible? Or is there a good way of doing it?

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Best answer by brucelef

Yes, it's possible. Check out the Externalizer service [0] for access to the hostname, and the Sightly Use-API [1] for exposing that value to your Sightly scripts.

[0] https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-1/develop/platform/externalizer.html

[1] http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-1/develop/sightly/use-api-in-java.html

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brucelefAdobe EmployeeAccepted solution
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October 16, 2015

Yes, it's possible. Check out the Externalizer service [0] for access to the hostname, and the Sightly Use-API [1] for exposing that value to your Sightly scripts.

[0] https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-1/develop/platform/externalizer.html

[1] http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-1/develop/sightly/use-api-in-java.html

    joerghoh
    Adobe Employee
    joerghohAdobe Employee
    Adobe Employee
    October 16, 2015

    Hi,

    I don't think that it is a good idea to attach the hostname (and the protocol as well) to a link when you render a page. At least as long as you don't need to switch either server or protocol. If you stay all the time on https://mysite.com, you should just render relative links.

    When you need to switch the hostname, you can use the Externalizer as suggested by Bruce. Or you might implement something custom.

    kind regards,
    Jörg

    junc70220741
    junc70220741Author
    October 16, 2015

    Thanks guys for the advice.

    I'm now developing a sharing functionality, for example, click a button from a news page and it fires the Twitter api with the news page url.

    Actually, I'm a bit surprised that it requires to modify the console.

    crisr1
    crisr1
    Level 4
    July 7, 2016

    I think you could probably get it easier through the request global object..

    ${request.serverName}

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