Removing trailing slashes gives me WCF troubles - Sitefinity - Bugs & Issues

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Posted by Community Admin on 27-Dec-2013 00:00

Hi,

I recently wrote a little blogpost about SEO improvements for Sitefinity.
I discovered that when I add the rewrite rule for adding/removing trailing slashes to the url, some of the WCF services are not working, for example:

Analytics Service
Calendar Service (for retrieving the Calendars for Events)

If I disable the rule to remove trailing slashes, all works okay, so I guess there is some inconsistency in how these services are called?

Daniel.

Posted by Community Admin on 27-Dec-2013 00:00

Hi Daniel,

I noticed that too and configured the rule to ignore Sitefinity URLs:

<rule name="Remove trailing slash" enabled="true" stopProcessing="false">

<match url="(.*)/$" />

<conditions>

<add input="REQUEST_FILENAME" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />

<add input="REQUEST_FILENAME" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />

<add input="REQUEST_FILENAME" pattern=".*Sitefinity.*" negate="true" />

</conditions>

<action type="Redirect" url="R:1"

/>

</rule>

So far it seems to work fine.

Posted by Community Admin on 27-Dec-2013 00:00

Yah, that would be a good workaround for now ;)

Thanks,
Daniel

Posted by Community Admin on 30-Dec-2013 00:00

Hi,

This is covered in the rewrites section in our documentation. You have to skip/exclude some paths from your rules: Using URL Rewrite for SEO.

Regards,
Radoslav Georgiev
Telerik

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