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Paul Piper commented on OFBIZ-5312:
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Hi Parimal,
that is interesting. To get into your statements:
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1. control has removed from the url.
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That is wanted behaviour. The URLs should begin with www.yourdomain.com and
then add the directories directly. Having had the /control in between was a
leftover from using a servlet as a request handler, it was a bad habit,
however, since you would never call any url outside of the handler (even the
index.jsp file would only serve as a means to do a redirect) and thus a lot of
redirection would take place whenever you would access the calls directly.
Having "control" added to the urls isn't good from a url point of view and also
not pretty.
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2. Frontpage mapping from /main to / is done.
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This is also the wanted behaviour. The frontpage should always be accessible at
/ and not /main. Though this is a common behaviour for most web applications,
it still isn't ideal to use /main
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3. I run the application using standered macro <@ofbizUrl> for category and
product i.e. using url 'category?category_id=' and 'product/product_id=' but no
difference is observed.
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Hmm... I will have to look into our implementation again. But if the macros
aren't modified, then I would agree that we should discuss doing so in the near
future.
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4. Then I used <@ofbizCatalogAltUrl> with out aleternate url content defined
for category and product to create the user friendly url
and found SeoCatalogUrlFilter.java and SeoCatalogUrlServlet.java is called but
not handle this request and forward the url then CatalogUrlFilter.java and
CatalogUrlServelet.java handle the request and obviously the url pattern is
same as defined in #3 of first section.
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This must have to do with the url patterns you defined. Could you send me your
configuration?
> Proposal: URL-Generation Changes
> --------------------------------
>
> Key: OFBIZ-5312
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5312
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: specialpurpose/ecommerce
> Affects Versions: SVN trunk
> Reporter: Jacques Le Roux
> Assignee: Jacques Le Roux
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: changes, ecommerce, friendly, seo, url
> Fix For: SVN trunk
>
> Attachments: OFBIZ-5312 - ofbiz-ecommerce-seo.patch, OFBIZ-5312 -
> ofbiz-ecommerce-seo.patch
>
>
> [This was proposed by Paul Piper in Nabble 7 months
> ago|http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Proposal-URL-Generation-Changes-td4639289.html].
> Here is quoted Paul's proposal
> {quote}
> Hey Everyone,
> over at ilscipio (www.ilscipio.com) we developed a set of functional OFBiz
> changes that we believe the entire community could benefit from. The changes
> have been implemented in parts in Syracus (www.syracus.net) for a while now,
> but we figured that some of which are too crucial for ofbiz' success in the
> long run, so we are considering the contribution (as we did with the SOLR
> component).
> As you are probably aware, OFBiz has a pretty uncommon way of generating
> URLs. Most of this has to do with the fact that OFBiz uses a servlet
> (ControlServlet) to handle all requests. The servlet is mounted at /control,
> so that it won't interfere with other servlets. Though functionally valid,
> this has the sideeffect that all urls are actually created on /control, which
> is neither pretty, nor good by any measures of SEO. It also means that a few
> 302 redirects are necessary to forward the user from / to /control/main. It
> also makes requests more complicated, since many forwards are necessary
> whenever somebody wants to move away from this implementation.
> Since this is hurtful to many of the implementers, I wanted to discuss
> whether or not you guys would be interested in the changes we have made. The
> functional changes contain:
> * Removal of /control out of all the urls
> * SEO-friendly URLS
> * Configurable product/category and other URLs
> * Frontpage mapping from /main to /
> It was tested on our end and contains all necessary improvements (Transforms,
> Sample Configuration, Servlets & Filters) for it to be applicable.
> If interested, I would create a new JIRA ticket for this and after a few
> minor internal discussions, we will gladly provide the rest of you with it.
> Regards,
> Paul
> {quote}
> There is even a patch, mostly done by Jinghai Shi, that I attach here. Even
> if it has been already used in [Syracus|http://syracus.net/] since early this
> year, some help would be needed to test it thoroughly in OFBiz.
> Then we should discuss if it's the way to go. I believe it is. Who needs a
> /control/ or /main by default in ecommerce urls? Would you not prefer
> http://localhost:8080/ecommerce/ over
> http://localhost:8080/ecommerce/control/main ?
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