U4-2499 - Remove the possibility for accessing pages with nodeid's or give a redirect option

Re: duplicate content, if you don't link to it, search engine spiders will not pick up the urls so it's not an issue.

I disagree. The page IS accessible via multiple URL's, which IS bad for duplicate content. The nodeid.aspx url should not be available anymore. Question though; what was it used for anyway?

Preview mode.

Again, if you don't link to it, Google doesn't know about it, so there is no problem. Find me 1 Umbraco site on Google that has both the nice url and the numerical url listed and I'll send you a beer. ;-)

http://our.umbraco.org/forum/core/general/43096-Auto-redirect-NodeId-to-NiceUrl

Btw, it sounds like you're saying "There's this bug, but if nobody visits the page nobody will know"... How about injecting a canonical meta tag if the page was requested by the /nodeid.aspx url?

I'm not saying we shouldn't change the behavior but just that it has not been a problem in the past 5+ years that umbraco has been doing this. Yes, you can add meta tags, but Umbraco touts not messing with your templates so this won't be done automatically.

http://www.at-bo.dk/ >>> 1092

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@rhl You have deserved your beer, for sure! However, may I advise you not to actually link to the node Id's.. :-)

Lol :D

@rhl Three beers (one for each node) are on their way. Please report back which one was the best.

Also, this was a one-time offer, no more beers to be had here. ;)

Commit made by '''Sebastiaan Janssen''' on ''2015-03-24T20:09:48+01:00'' https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/commit/9dfccd86fd3961712be529042941c2a62f7c6bb8

U4-2499 Remove the possibility for accessing pages with nodeid's or give a redirect option

#U4-2499 Fixed Due in version 7.2.5

And what about people who actually use this feature? This has actually been useful for providing short URLs for pages. Suddenly removing this in a patch release could quite possibly break sites.

@Asbjørn.Riis-Knudsen We're not changing the default behavior of course. It's a configuration option that people can set. The default for disableFindContentByIdPath is false:

<web.routing trySkipIisCustomErrors="false" trySkipIisCustomErrors="false" internalRedirectPreservesTemplate="false" disableAlternativeTemplates="false"> internalRedirectPreservesTemplate="false" disableAlternativeTemplates="false" disableFindContentByIdPath="false" />

@sebastiaan Ah, hadn't caught that bit. That sounds like the ideal solution, making it configurable :)

Doesn't preview function by ID? Will preview continue to work with this disabled?

Good point, I've now made it work with preview mode as well (https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/commit/fa05342).

Also, before anyone asks: yes you can make a node in the root of your site with the name 1090 and it will work to go to http://mysite.com/1090

I have been building a RSS feed, it does not like unicode urls, and it likes to have a permalink, I think http://example.com/1090 would be the ideal url for rss guid field and link field to ensure permanence even if the name changes, and ensure only ascii characters in the path.

I think this url ( http://example.com/1090 ) should be configurable to redirect to the NiceUrl. This ticket suggests such a redirect for the solution. ... or should I create a new Issue/ticket?

Side note: a workaround could be to set disableFindContentByIdPath="true" and build a 404 handler to do the redirect, but a config setting sounds nicer :-)

No config setting available I'm afraid. 404 handler is recommended.