URL Shortening in AEM

Content pages in AEM start with path /content/. It is best practice to hide /content/site in the URL.

https://<domain>/content/site/en/page.html

Below configs show how to achieve URL shortening on both AEM server and dispatcher.

Configs on AEM Server:

·         There are many ways to configure the rewrites on publish server. e.g. Resource Resolver, Vanity URLs, Sling mapping.

·         Configuring the Apache Sling Resource Resolver Factory is one of the ways to configure rewrites. This service needs to be configured on the publish server so that if someone hits the publish server directly; we see the correct rules applied there.
Make sure that the publish server has the below configuration applied

Configs on Dispatcher:

• Open dispatcher.conf file and update  DispatcherUseProcessedURL  value to 1

  DispatcherConfig conf/dispatcher.any

  DispatcherLog    logs/dispatcher.log

  DispatcherLogLevel 3

  DispatcherNoServerHeader 0

  DispatcherDeclineRoot 0

  DispatcherUseProcessedURL 1

  DispatcherPassError 0

·         Open httpd.conf, uncomment below line

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

·         Add below rewrite rules in dispatcher.conf file

RewriteEngine on

# remove any trailing slash, if it's there.

RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ $1

#Shorten the URL

RewriteRule ^/content/site/(.*).html$ $1.html [R,L]

#Map the root folder to the home page

RewriteRule ^/?$ en/page.html [R,L]

# Ignore requests to "known" AEM root paths, and prefix all others with the proper AEM prefix

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/apps

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/content

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/etc

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/home

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/libs

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/system

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/tmp

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/var

#RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /content/site/$1 [PT,L]