You can customize the URL to any page. You may find this feature useful for SEO
purposes. For example, you could use URL Management to follow search-engine friendly naming
conventions or to include keywords in URLs.
Note
Any URL values listed for a page
will resolve as a 301 redirect to the canonical value if administrators select the
Redirect all requests to canonical URL automatically checkbox
for the given publishing target. See Configuring
Structured URL Settings for details.
To manage URLs:
- Navigate to .
- Select the page in the Site Tree, and then click the page's
Properties tab in the main pane.
- Select URL Management in the Options
menu.
The
URL Management settings display.
- In the URL Settings for drop-down list, choose the publishing target (e.g., Staging) where
you want to apply your URL configuration.
- Optional: Complete the following steps to add a custom URL for the page.
- Click Add to include a new custom URL for the page.
The Add New Custom URL for Page... dialog
displays.
- Enter the path of the new custom URL.
Note
The system requires paths to start with a forward slash (/).
- Click Add.
The custom URL displays in the URL Management
view.
- Select or clear the checkbox in the Set URL column for the
new custom URL.
This checkbox is cleared by default. If selected, the CMS changes your preferred
URL from the default setting to this new custom URL.
Note
All other URLs to the page will redirect to your preferred (i.e., canonical)
URL.
- Select or clear the checkbox in the MFO column for the new
custom URL.
This checkbox is cleared by default. If selected, the CMS associates Multi-Format
Output (MFO) publishing with the custom URL.
Important
To use this column, the system requires administrators to first
configure MFO. See
Setting up Multi-Format Output for details to configure
MFO.
- Optional: You can select the Requires SSL checkbox in the
Advanced area to apply a Secure Socket Layer to the
page. Otherwise, leave the checkbox cleared.
- Click Save in the toolbar menu.
Once you publish your changes to the publishing target that you set, visitors to your
site will be redirected to your preferred URL from any other listed URL.