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Extensionless Page Reference: Have your cake and eat it too!

by Rich Winslow | Nov 07, 2010

I have implemented a good number of Sitefinity sites with the standard .ASPX file extension. However, when I analyze how spiders and visitors might access my sites, there are extensionless requests. I was hoping that I could have both.

The Sitefinity 3.7 User Manual (page 186) describes how to get extensionless web pages by:

Changing the <cms pageExtension=".aspx"> element in the web.config file to <cms pageExtension="">
Changing IIS so the 404 error definition has Path Type of 'Execute URL' and a Path of '/sf404.aspx'. This does work jusst fine, but specifying the .aspx file extension in the URL will produce a 404 error.

But if you want both extensionless web pages and .aspx web pages, then leave pageExtension as '.aspx'

Setting the web.config file cms element attribute pageExtension to '.aspx' (ex. <cms pageExtension=".aspx" ...> )
Changing IIS so the 404 error definition has Path Type of 'Execute URL' and a Path of '/sf404.aspx'. This does work jusst fine, but specifying the .aspx file extension in the URL will produce a 404 error. (See the Sitefinity user manual page 186 for IIS version specific examples)

Now I don't get an error when spiders and vistors leave off page extensions.

Sitefinity can be configured for extensionless page types via IIS

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By redirecting to the sf404.aspx page, Sitefinity will automatically add the .aspx page extension and deliver the correct page without generating a 404 page not found error.

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