How to change the canonical path?

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3/26/2012 9:45:09 PM
leah
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How to change the canonical path?

 

In a custom module that I built the client wants to use AddThis for social media shares. AddThis looks at the canonical link for the URL but the canonical links is not correct.  The module that I build uses mojoportal Friendly URLs

The version of mojoportal that I am using is:  2.3.3.9 MSSQL

Example page: http://www.buffed.org.au/buffed-news-the-buffington-post-february-2012.aspx

When you view source you can see that canonical link is not the friendly URL.

<link rel='canonical' href='http://www.buffed.org.au/buffed-news.aspx' />

 

Any advice appreciated.

3/27/2012 1:07:30 PM
Joe Audette
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Re: How to change the canonical path?

mojoPortal does not add canonical links in your custom feature supporting pages, it only adds them in CMS pages (ie the pages in the main menu) and in included features that have their own code for adding them, so that must be something in your own code doing that.

2.3.3.9 is also a very old version from early in 2010

3/27/2012 10:30:31 PM
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Re: How to change the canonical path?

Sorry if I did not explain very well. This is not a supporting page. It is a top level page that is in the main menu

I have a custom module on the page, http://www.buffed.org.au/buffed-news.aspx

Like a blog, the module I built displays a list of short version of items or detailed view of one item. I have used Friendly URLs for the detailed view of an item

For the list view:

  • FriendlyUrl buffed-news.aspx
  • RealUrl ~/Default.aspx?pageid=231

For the detailed item view:

  • FriendlyUrl buffed-news-the-buffington-post-february-2012.aspx
  • RealUrl ~/Default.aspx?pageid=231&itemid=27

 

The canonical url is being set in the mojoportal Default page from within the LoadPage method

So the CurrentPage.Url is being used when I would want it to use the Friendly Url. I was thinking I might be able to set the CannonicalOverride value as I display the detailed view of the module

 

(thanks for the heads-up about the mojo portal version I am running I hope to schedule in some time to upgrade in a couple months)

3/28/2012 7:06:14 AM
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Re: How to change the canonical path?

Sorry but in my opinion that is the wrong way to do it, you should use a supporting page for a detail page as illustrated in all included features in mojoPortal that have detail links or use their own friendly urls. This problem is a good example of why this is not the right way to do it. Modules should be designed to play nice with other modules on the CMS page which means they don't own the page and should not manipulate the url of the CMS page with new parameters.

See the Blog feature, it has a list of posts on the cms page but individual posts link to a detail view that is not the CMS page, ie the friendly urls point to ~/Blog/BlogView.aspx?pageid=x&mid=y&ItemID=z not to ~/Default.aspx with extra params.

You are trying to re-use Default.aspx for things it was not intended for, it is the CMS page and it will use the canonical url of the current CMS page.

I recommend re-factor your feature to use a supporting page where you have complete control over the page and update your friendly urls to point to your supporting page.

Hope that helps,

Joe

3/28/2012 5:38:15 PM
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Re: How to change the canonical path?

Thanks Joe. I agree with your suggestion.

I just focused on making the page work rather then making the best use of the framework. The module is live on a couple sites. But as you point out we only need to change what the friendly urls point to so the refactor will probably not be noticeable for the clients.

 

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