Problem with DXA 1.4, pages all not rendering without .Html extension

Question

I am facing issue with page URL in DXA 1.4. I have installed DXA 1.4 along with all required services with SDL web 8.1 on single machine as per the installation instruction.

When I am accessing site and navigate to one of the news page from the news list at bottom of the home page it open the below URL:

http://localhost:8888/articles/news/news1 ------- This URL throws 404 error

But When I put .html extension to the page URL it appears correctly: http://localhost:8888/articles/news/news1.html --- This work perfectly.

Please guide me where I am missing.

Thanks Piyush Jain

Answer 1

DXA does to loopup against the SDL broker database for the page URL

In Tridion you page is most likely called news1.html, or some other extension, as Tridion cannot explicitly do extension-less URLs

You have two a few options

1. Use a re-write rule to remove the extension
2. In your code, append the '.html' to any url's that do not arrive with it

asp.net e.g. update route config to from:

// Tridion Page Route
routes.MapRoute(
   "Core_Page",
   "{*pageUrl}",
   new { controller = "Page", action = "Page" },
   new { pageId = @"^(.*)?$" }
).DataTokens.Add("area", "Core");

to:

// Tridion Page Route
routes.MapRoute(
   "Core_Page",
   "{*pageUrl}.html",
   new { controller = "Page", action = "Page" },
   new { pageId = @"^(.*)?$" }
).DataTokens.Add("area", "Core");

Warning, this code will not handle .html requests -- you will get .html.html. You can get more advanced with your routing to handle both scenarios if required