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shobhit agarwal 8 posts 108 karma points

Nov 27, 2015 @ 12:40

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Why template has its own URL in umbraco

Templates and document types

Umbraco 7

I have created a template named it to "home page". then i have created a content tab for this and publish it with url suppose like "www.mydomain.com". but now i can see the same page is also accessible at "www.mydomain.com\homepage". Can anyone let me know why there is a page exists for each template in umbraco. this causes me content duplication issue in SEO. Will Appreciate help.

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Alex Skrypnyk 6132 posts 23951 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib

Nov 27, 2015 @ 23:28

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Hi Shobhit Agarwal,

Each template don't have it's own urls. Home page are accessible via few urls because it's your first node and it's working as root of your site.

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shobhit agarwal 8 posts 108 karma points

Dec 01, 2015 @ 07:17

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Hi Alex

this is not the case. other templates are also accessible in my website with the same behaviour.

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Dan Diplo 1554 posts 6205 karma points MVP 5x c-trib

Nov 30, 2015 @ 10:05
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Umbraco allows you to switch templates at runtime. So you can append a template alias to a URL and it will then render that page using that template. See https://umbraco.tv/videos/umbraco-v7/implementor/fundamentals/templating/alt-template/

So when you go www.mydomain.com\homepage it is passing in the template "homepage" to render the content (which just happens to be the default template, anyway).

I believe you can disable this behaviour in /config/umbracoSettings.config

Change disableAlternativeTemplates to "true" in web.routing:
```
  <web.routing
    trySkipIisCustomErrors="true"
    internalRedirectPreservesTemplate="false" disableAlternativeTemplates="true"  
disableFindContentByIdPath="false"
    umbracoApplicationUrl="">
  </web.routing>
```
And in 404handlers.config remove
```
<notFound assembly="umbraco" type="SearchForTemplate"/>
```
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shobhit agarwal 8 posts 108 karma points

Dec 01, 2015 @ 08:17

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Hi dan

Removing

<notFound assembly="umbraco" type="SearchForTemplate"/>

from 404handlers.config works good to me and resolves my issue.

However if i add disableAlternativeTemplates="true" to web.routing element in umbracoSettings.config i face some application error. is this attribute is specific to any umbraco version. please note i am using umbraco 7.x

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Dan Diplo 1554 posts 6205 karma points MVP 5x c-trib

Dec 01, 2015 @ 08:34

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Sorry, don't really know what is causing the error - I was just basing this on the documentation. If removing it from 404handlers works, I'd just leave it :)

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Richard Hamilton 79 posts 169 karma points

Dec 17, 2018 @ 11:57

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I have been experiencing the same behaviour this week and didn't know this functionality existed.

I guess if you wanted to use this feature, you should probably name your templates with more unique names? Such as kWG8KDFy7z6Ow-Blog.cshtml

Because it seems that certain robots will try to find common names such as /blog or /contact

Any thoughts on this and how to use this functionality correctly?

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