Removing Page Extensions using DD4T

Question

We are using DD4T Java for one of our website build using Tridion 2013 SP1.

One of the requirements says we should not display page extensions.

Current page urls : www.mysite.com/newsroom/newsarticles/mybank.html

expected page urls : www.mysite.com/newsroom/newsarticles/mybank

How this can be done using DD4T Java?

Answer 1

Would this solve your issue ? - http://www.tuckey.org/urlrewrite/

Answer 2

URL Rewrite is the way to go. We did it successfully in .NET. Should be possible in Java too. A quick google gave many options "url rewrite to remove extension in java"

Answer 3

We normally put each page in a separate structure group with filename as index.html, with this you don't need to provide index.html in the URL and still the page can be accessed. Not an ideal solution though but works.

Answer 4

As Nuno mentions, DXA supports this as well. The solution is similar to the answer suggesting to change the GetContentByUrl() method.

While that solution will work, it's not ideal, as we don't want to modify core DD4T files.

I'm not sure if you use DD4T v1 or v2 for java, the below code samples are based on v2 (but a similar approach will work for v1 as well)

A better solution is to override the functionality of the DynamicPageController (https://github.com/dd4t/dd4t-2-java/blob/develop/dd4t-example-site/src/main/java/org/dd4t/springmvc/controller/DynamicPageController.java)

In line 121, you find this piece of code

Page pageModel = (Page) genericPageFactory.findPageByUrl(URL, publication);

You should alter this logic, and check for different variations of the URL variable (this variable contains the url you put in your browser.

• First check if you can find the original URL (e.g http://www.mysite.com/news)
• If this can't be found, add and index page (in case you are requesting a directory, so change URL variable to "http://www.mysite.com/news/index.html", and call the function again
• if you still don't get a result, then change URL variable to "http://www.mysite.com/news.html" (the extension might vary depending on what you defined in your page templates)

One caveat for dd4t java version 2 is that it's better to check if a page exists by calling the method

genericPageFactory.isPagePublished(URL, publication).

Hope this helps

Answer 5

in "DD4T.providers.SDLTridion2013sp1" solution

you will find "GetContentByUrl(string Url)" append ".html" to this url string

url = url+".html";

this works for .NET, u can try the same for JAVA also.

please do let me know if this works.