How to remove years and months from the urls

[nikunjj22482698]

We have a use case where we want to create the hierarchy in AEM author where the pages will be created under years and months but for the end-user, we don't want to display the years and months in the URLs.

Is this something that can be achieved via Apache and dispatcher rules?

Thanks,

Nikunj Jariwala

[Vish_dhaliwal]

Hello,

You can achieve this by defining the rewrite rules on Apache together with sling mappings.

Please go through these links to get more information:

Resource Mapping

https://shinesolutions.com/2017/01/04/demystifying-shortened-and-extension-less-urls-in-aem/

How to configure link rewriting

https://www.aemquickstart.in/2019/01/url-shortening-in-aem.html

Regards,

Vishu

[nikunjj22482698]

Thanks for replying Vish.dhaliwal​.

The set up works as expected when we have static paths like /content/site_name/en. My question is around the dynamic aspect of the path i.e. there will be many years and months pages in the hierarchy.

for example, the content in AEM will look like the following:

/content/site_name/en/news/articles/2019/07/news-article-1.html

/content/site_name/en/news/articles/2018/06/news-article-2.html

/content/site_name/en/news/articles/2015/04/news-article-3.html

The end-user should be able to access the pages using the following:

http://example.com/en/news/articles/news-article-1.html

http://example.com/en/news/articles/news-article-2.html

http://example.com/en/news/articles/news-article-3.html

Is there any way we can achieve this without writing any custom code in AEM? I m not sure if Apache rewrite can achieve this.

[Jaideep_Brar · Accepted solution]

You can achieve this by using the mod_rewrite module of apache. Check [1] for more details.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33037563/url-rewriting-with-dynamic-parameters

https://moz.com/blog/using-mod-rewrite-to-convert-dynamic-urls-to-seo-friendly-urls

[nikunjj22482698]

Makes sense. Thanks JaideepBrar​ for the reference links.

Thanks,

Nikunj Jariwala