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Sitecore - 301 redirection for similar URLs

As suggested by SEO, I'm trying to redirect similar URLs to one single URL. For example,

1) http://www.example.com/en/contact-us

2) http://www.example.com/en/contact%20us

3) http://www.example.com/en/contact-us/

Above three URLs take us to the same item in Sitecore. So I would like to make the URL in bold to be the main URL and other two URLs should have a 301 redirection to it.

I tried adding rewrite rule in IIS and could get the first URL to redirect. However, the second URL is not redirecting to the 3rd URL. See below config.

Web.config

<rewrite>    
    <rules>
        <rule name="Redirect rule">
            <match url=".*" />
            <conditions>
              <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern=".*example\.com.*" />
              <add input="{ExamplePermanent:{REQUEST_URI}}" pattern="(.+)" />
              </conditions>
              <action type="Redirect" url="{C:1}" appendQueryString="false" 
                     redirectType="Permanent" />
            </rule>
    </rules>
    <rewriteMaps configSource="rewritemaps.config" />
</rewrite>

rewritemaps.config

<rewriteMaps>
  <rewriteMap name="ExamplePermanent">
      <add key="/en/contact-us" value="/en/contact-us/" />
      <add key="/en/contact%20us" value="/en/contact-us/" />
  </rewriteMap>
<rewriteMaps>

Is there any configuration that needs to be done in order to make the 2nd URL redirect with 301?

Solution

  • IIS will decode %20 to a space, so just replace that with space in rewritemaps:

     <add key="/en/contact us" value="/en/contact-us/" />