svn commit: r1658577 - /ofbiz/trunk/specialpurpose/ecommerce/webapp/ecomseo/README

Author: jleroux
Date: Mon Feb  9 21:20:08 2015
New Revision: 1658577

URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1658577
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A README to give some information and references about and how to use the ecomseo webapp

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+As you are probably aware, OFBiz has a pretty uncommon way of generating URLs.
+Most of this has to do with the fact that OFBiz uses a servlet (ControlServlet) to handle all requests.
+The servlet is mounted at /control, so that it won't interfere with other servlets.
+Though functionally valid, this has the side effect that all URLs are actually created on /control, which is neither pretty, nor good by any measures of SEO.
+It also means that a few 302 redirects are necessary to forward the user from / to /control/main.
+It also makes requests more complicated, since many forwards are necessary whenever somebody wants to move away from this implementation.
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+Since this is hurtful to many of the implementers, The ecomseo functional changes contain:
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+    Removal of /control out of all the urls
+    SEO-friendly URLS (by default the suffix .html, see <category-url-suffix> in SeoConfig.xml)
+    Configurable product/category and other URLs (see in in SeoConfig.xml)
+    Frontpage mapping from /main to /
+    
+If you want to know more about this feature, please check https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5312

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