Clean URLs in Umbraco 13

TigerMan

05/14/2024, 7:18 PM

Hi In previous versions of Umbraco I used to use the UrlRewriting file to get an URL which was built like /GetCustomer?id=2®ion=1 This was cleaned up to look like /GetCustomer/2/1/John What would be the correct way to do this in Umbraco 13? Thank you

Ambert

05/14/2024, 7:46 PM

If you want it to work that way I think you need to make a custom route for it

Ambert

05/14/2024, 7:47 PM

Something like

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app.UseEndpoints(endpoints =>
{
    endpoints.MapControllerRoute(
        name: "getCustomer",
        pattern: "GetCustomer/{id}/{region}/{name}",
        defaults: new { controller = "YourControllerName", action = "GetCustomer" }
    );
   
});

Ambert

05/14/2024, 7:48 PM

Then you could make a controller taking in those params and return the correct view for it

Ambert

05/14/2024, 7:51 PM

You could also add an UrlRewriting middleware rule that rewrites URLs from /GetCustomer/2/1/John to /GetCustomer?id=2®ion=1&name=John.

Ambert

05/14/2024, 7:52 PM

I cant find a correct doc link for it, but something like this:

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 public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
    {   
        app.UseRewriter(new RewriteOptions()
            .AddRewrite(@"^GetCustomer/(\d+)/(\d+)/(\w+)$", "GetCustomer?id=$1®ion=$2&name=$3", skipRemainingRules: true)
            // Add more rewrite rules if needed
        );

        // Other middleware configurations
    }

TigerMan

05/14/2024, 8:27 PM

It seems it's become a tad more complex. So middleware is the approach to take I assume. I'll take the last bit of the code you provided for demo purposes but if you do find the documentation link that would really help too 👍

Ambert

05/15/2024, 1:38 PM

Well its basically default .net core functionality, not Umbraco specific, so: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/url-rewriting?view=aspnetcore-8.0

Ambert

05/15/2024, 1:38 PM

Guess that should help ? 🙂

TigerMan

05/15/2024, 1:39 PM

Thanks, I'll have a read into that 👍

Mike Chambers

05/15/2024, 1:57 PM

Although if you are running on iis, MS recommends using IIS urlrewrite 😉