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How safe is it for pages and VPPs to share the same top-level URL segment?
I'm thinking most (all?) documents will have a file extension while friendly URLs won't, so IF a problem would arise I think it could be fixed fairly easily.
All in all, I don't see why this would pose any problems.
Apr 19, 2011 8:20
Hi Deane!
Conceptually, this would be no different than what You already have with the default
EPiServer-setup (but without the "foo"-part):
/
/Documents/document.pdf
There is nothing stopping a WebEditor to create a page named "Documents" under the Startpage and under that create pages
that might clash with files residing in the Documents-VPP.
However, as EPiServer defaults to insert the languagecomponent into the url ( /en/Documents/page-that-looks-like-a-file )
and that files usually have a filextension as Ted mentioned above, the risk of collisions would be minimal I think.
/johan
Apr 19, 2011 11:49
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I have a client who needs selected pages and binary files to roll up under the same top-level URL segment for their analytics. So, they need something like this:
They need this so both requests log until the "/foo" top-level URL segment.
I did some testing, and I created pages at:
I also created a VPP and mapped it to "~/foo/documents," so I have a file at:
Everything seems to work. I suppose someone could make a page under "foo" with the URL segment of "documents," and in that case, I believe the VPP would "win." I can just educate them not to do this.
My client is about to make a fairly binding decision about their grand analytics strategy over this. Am I missing anything? I've asked around, and the concensus is that it "should" work fine, but I'm looking for last-minute opinions on it.
Anyone see a problem here?