Hi Kyle

Umbraco has a hidden feature!

If you have a url to a page eg

http://www.example.com/about-us

it will load with the template it is published under

you can force it to load with a different template by adding ?altTemplate to the querystring

eg

http://www.example.com/about-us/?altTemplate=mobile

would load the about-us page, not with it's current template but with another template called mobile.

but that looks a bit messy so they also made it that

http://www.example.com/about-us/mobile.aspx

would load the about-us page with the mobile template.

and even

http://www.example.com/about-us/mobile

would do the same.

So where am I going with this ?

do you have a template called 'solutions' ?

if you do then request to

http://www.example.com/about-us/solutions

would return a 200, by loading the about-us with the solutions template.

You can turn this behaviour off in later version of umbraco in config/umbracosettings.config

in <web.routing

set disableAlternativeTemplates="true"

or at least that's what I suspect is happening...

Hi Kyle

I think that setting came into play in 7.3.4 (https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/commit/d24ef3650e4bc01c0301e00cbe5210c58732d31b)

Is the document type that 'about-us' based upon 'allowed' to use the solutions template ? That might be why it works here and not other templates.

Try renaming the 'Solutions' template, to be 'SolutionsPage' if /about-us/SolutionsPage then returns the 200, mangled page, then at least you know that is what is happening!

If you can't upgrade and use the config option to turn this behaviour off... and you can't prevent the about-us from using the solutions template - then the other approach would be to remove the IContentFinder for ContentFinderByNiceUrlAndTemplate which is responsible for this behaviour:

https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/blob/d50e49ad37fd5ca7bad2fd6e8fc994f3408ae70c/src/Umbraco.Web/Routing/ContentFinderByNiceUrlAndTemplate.cs

from the list of current ContentFinderResolver's on application starting.

see: https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/reference/routing/request-pipeline/icontentfinder

public class MyApplication : ApplicationEventHandler
{
  protected override void ApplicationStarting(…) 
  {     
    // Remove ContentFinderByNiceUrlAndTemplate        ContentFinderResolver.Current.RemoveType<ContentFinderByNiceUrlAndTemplate>();
  }
}

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