Configuring Vanity Url in Sitecore

Vanity Url is also known as an alias, it’s an alternative URL that you can configure in order to access a page

Yes, you can have 2 URLs for that Page

Example: http://mywebsite/page1 , and create an alias called “Worldcup”, and this URL would be accessible by http://mywebsite/Worldcup ?

Exploring the Alias folder

The Alias Folder lives in “/sitecore/system/Aliases”

set the name of the item example: Worldcup

Now, Click on “Insert Link” and select the desired page that should be seen by the end user

Publish the item ! Done !

Now, hit your website http://mywebsite/Worldcup and you should see the content of Page1

Yes, there is, but in this document, I will focus on a different approach, this way gives more control for the Content Authors

You can also create a subdirectory like “soccer”, in this case, the URL would be http://mywebsite/soccer/Worldcup

Attention: The item Soccer should not point to anyplace (even if you have a page called soccer), leave it blank

Sometimes, during a migration, we may have old valid URLs like page.aspx, but this item is an invalid name on Sitecore,

So if you try to create this item, you will see this message:

How to bypass that?

Simple, create the page with the page “WorldCup2018”, and them

set the display name as “WorldCup2018.aspx”, configure the Linked Item and

This will make your “WorldCup2018” to be accessible on Sitecore

When you need to create some subdirectories, you may miss the Insert options , so you can assign the insert options to this template

Or create a rule, that will insert this

To create a rule go to

/sitecore/system/Settings/Rules/Insert Options

Create a new Rule called “Alias Insert Options”

Change to Raw Values and paste the code below

Uncheck Raw values

Save the item

And now the content author can easiy create the aliases for the subdirectories