Implementing SEO friendly URL's in uCommerce for Sitecore

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I'm wondering whether anyone has come across the following issue. We're currently working on a Sitecore website that uses integrated uCommerce to provide eCommerce functionalty.

Rather than passing category and product ids to a static url that maps directly to an item in the sitecore content tree e.g.

  • domain.com/category/?category=123
  • domain.com/category/product/?product=321

We want to be able to have URL's like follows:

  • domain.com/category-name/product-name

Generating this url shouldn't be too difficult if we use IUrlService provided by uCommerce.

Is there an easy solution to get these sort of URL's to map to a particular item in the Sitecore content tree and ensure the uCommerce context is updated accordingly?

Thanks in advance for any help received.

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I haven't used uCommerce, but in a regular Sitecore scenario I would be looking at using Wildcard items to replace the query strings, an httpRequestBegin pipeline processor to handle the incoming request and overriding the default LinkManager to handle generating the out going URLs. An alternative would be to look at URL rewriting (but I'm not sure that would work in this instance) - jammykam
@jammykam Thanks for the tip. Let me have a look into these. I'll update you to let you know how it goes. - Tom Miller

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I am using the Sitecore Commerce Connect framework and am using wildcard URLs for my products and categories. Since my products often appear in several categories, I have kept the structure of having separate URLs for products and categories to make sure that the URL for the product is not repeated if it appears under several categories.

  • Home/product/* is my the wildcard item for products
  • Home/category/* is the wildcard item for my categories

The wildcard manager will then allow me to render the product and category pages based on those pages where I just resolve the item in Commerce connect by the information provided in the URL.

The custom LinkManager will then provide the references to the correct URL when fetching a link for and item and it will not risk having the URL changed if I do changes to the category structure or add it in several categories.