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Luyolo Mgodi 71 posts 120 karma points

Jun 24, 2015 @ 10:45

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umbraco dynamic friendly url

Good day,

I am building an Umbraco website using v7, however I'm extending the website. For a section of the website, I am consuming data from a XML Api. I am using the Umbraco Api Controller and call the API to return data. However i need to have the data coming from the API to have friendly URLs for SEO reasons. For example, this is an accommodation API so I need to be able to display a particular accommodation using a friendly url like www.mywebsite.com/accommodation/accomodation-name instead of www.mywebsite.com/?accommodationId=876.

Also, when I list accommodations in a certain region or town to have a url like: www.mywebsite.com/region-name and not www.mywebsite.com/?regionid=45

Thanks

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Sören Deger 733 posts 2844 karma points c-trib

Jun 24, 2015 @ 11:21

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Hi Luyolo,

maybe UrlRewriting can help you? Have a look at /config/urlrewriting.config. You can find into the file a description how you can use this.

Hope this helps?

Best, Sören

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Luyolo Mgodi 71 posts 120 karma points

Jun 24, 2015 @ 11:34

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Hi Sören,

I will have a look at that file and will feedback.

Regards, Luyolo

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Rik Helsen 670 posts 873 karma points

Jun 24, 2015 @ 11:46

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You can also use UmbracoAlias if every node just needs one alternative URL: https://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/umbraco-best-practices/umbracourlalias

Or 301 redirect module: https://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/301-url-tracker

or you could do a structural approach using the config file sören mentions ;)

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Luyolo Mgodi 71 posts 120 karma points

Jun 24, 2015 @ 11:57

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Hi Rik,

I don't think the 301 URL Tracker would be practical for what I need to do. I am consuming an API that has 100s to 1000s of establishments/accommodations. It would be impractical to have to set up these URLs in the CMS, as I understand that you have to set up the URLS for the URL Tracker in the CMS .

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Dave Woestenborghs 3504 posts 12135 karma points MVP 9x admin c-trib

Jun 24, 2015 @ 12:54

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Another option is to create a VirtualNodeHandler for this.

James South wrote a excellent article about it : http://jamessouth.me/archive/fun-with-umbracovirtualnoderoutehandler/

Dae

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Luyolo Mgodi 71 posts 120 karma points

Jun 24, 2015 @ 13:11

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Thanks Dave,

Will check the article out!

Best.

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Dave Woestenborghs 3504 posts 12135 karma points MVP 9x admin c-trib

Jun 24, 2015 @ 13:13

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Shannon also has a article about it.

http://shazwazza.com/post/Custom-MVC-routes-within-the-Umbraco-pipeline

And he has a early version of it in his Articulate blog package : https://github.com/Shazwazza/Articulate/tree/master/Articulate

Dave

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