Hi Lee,

Thank you so much for your quick reply.

The debugger doesn't seem to hit this code at all.

I've added the event to started and starting event but no luck, Am I missing anything?

Just to make sure that we are on the same page, let explain the situation a little bit lets say I've got /Blog/2013/MyPost as url.

Basically what I would like to do is because the year node doesn't have any template I want to redirect all the year nodes (and any other node without template) to their parent.

Many Thanks

Ali

I added the event to Umbraco.Core.ApplicationEventHandler.ApplicationStarted.

I've added that to ApplicationStarted too, I am using umbraco 6.1.6 and still no luck :(

here is my code. (I've also changed the order of the base to be executed first but no luck )

using System.Linq;

    using Umbraco.Core;
    using Umbraco.Web;

    class myclass : ApplicationEventHandler
    {

        protected override void ApplicationStarted(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)
        {
            Umbraco.Web.Routing.PublishedContentRequest.Prepared += PublishedContentRequest_Prepared; 
            base.ApplicationStarted(umbracoApplication, applicationContext);
        }

        private void PublishedContentRequest_Prepared(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {
            var request = sender as Umbraco.Web.Routing.PublishedContentRequest;
            if (request == null || !request.HasPublishedContent)
                return;

            if (!request.HasTemplate)
            {
                var ancestorWithTemplate = request
                    .PublishedContent
                    .Ancestors()
                    .FirstOrDefault(x => x.TemplateId != 0);

                UmbracoContext.Current.HttpContext.Response.Redirect(ancestorWithTemplate.Url);
            }
        }
    }

Many Thanks

Ali

Hmmm... is it that it's not running at all, or that the debug breakpoints are hitting?

(If it's the breakpoints, do double-check that you have "debug=true" - just covering my bases)

Otherwise, I'm not sure why it isn't running.

Actually It is not hitting the breakpoint and not running at all :(

anyway thank you for your help and have a nice weekend.

Cheers

Ali

Ali - how about making your class public?  If you have it in a seperate assembly from your start-up handler, it may not be found.

Thank you so much Andy that was the problem. I had that in a separate project.

Lee thank you so much for your solution.

to be honest I would like to mark both comments from Andy & Lee as answer but unfortunately I have only one option. :(

Glad you found a solution. On thing worth noting: try to avoid doing

UmbracoContext.Current.HttpContext.Response.Redirect(ancestorWithTemplate.Url);

In your code. Much better to let Umbraco take care of it:

request.SetRedirect(ancestorWithTemplate.Url)

or prob in your case you want it permanent;

request.SetRedirectPermanent(ancestorWithTemplate.Url)

So you don't have to mess with HttpContext anymore

Stephan

Thank you Stephen, I've replaced it with SetRedirectPermanent and now the status code is 301 and that's exactly what I was looking for.

Many Thanks Ali

Hi all,

I will keep the url, but this doesn't work for me in 7.2.1:

request.PublishedContent= ancestorWithTemplate;

I get the status code 404. But I can see on debugging that "ancestorWithTemplate" has the correct node resolved.

Of course, this works for me but changed the url:

request.SetRedirectPermanent(ancestorWithTemplate.Url);

Can anyone help?

Cheers

Sören

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