Umbraco url's displaying home node in one node, sometimes

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So I have an umbraco setup with a 'content' root node and then a 'home' node under that. Under the 'home' node is the content and the URLs are the name of those nodes for example I have a 'about u's node under home and it's URL is '/about-us/'

In the case of the 'news' node, below 'about us', its children some times get '/home/about-us/news/title' of the story as the URL, which throws a 404. I can see that this is the URL of the node on the properties tab, but if I republish it it returns to '/about-us/news/title' for a period before returning to the broken link.

I have only seen this behavior on this node, which contains new-item document types. I basically watched the umbraco tv video and created it following along.

It seems to be to be a umbraco bug, but I would really appreciate any help with the issue

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asp.netumbraco
Could you show the code you are using to generate the URL? Is it XSLT, umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id) ? – Digbyswift
The listing is doing it's job, the problem is that umbraco thinks that the url is different as that is how it is displayed on the properties tab 'Link to document' section. – chris vdp
Seems it might be related to calls to umbraco.library:NiceUrlFullPath – chris vdp

3 Answers

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In the web.config, there is a setting called umbracoHideTopLevelNodeFromPath. This causes the behavior you are describing when it is set to false. Do you perhaps have multiple people working on the site and publishing different versions of the web.config that have this setting changed?

When publishing a node with the setting set to false, it would add the /home part to the URL. Otherwise, it would leave off the /home.

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Once the Umbraco application has started, there are several processes that run on a regular basis (e.g. to check for expired content). It is possible to piggy-back on these by creating a custom class that inherits from umbraco.cms.businesslogic.ApplicationBase. If you have created one that uses the Document.AfterPublish eventhandler then I would check that it is not causing the issue.

I'm assuming that you haven't written one of these though, so the only other thing I can suggest is checking whether it is an installed package that is causing the issue. Have you installed any Umbraco packages? If so, do they have any automated behaviours, like creating folders etc. If so, this may be causing the issue. The author of a package will usually have a website, codeplex project etc. and they will usually have a issue list or blog.

Edit

I've just quickly checked and uBlogsy, one of the plugins you mention exactly this. It has auto moving and sorting of posts. This is described in the release notes. If you are using this tool for creating news pages, then this will be your issue.

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I followed obsidian's link in his answer and read about someone else having the same issue. It seems to be traces back to a umbraco.library:NiceUrlFullPath call in the RSS creator that was feeding news items. I replaced the umbraco.library:NiceUrlFullPath calls with umbraco.library:NiceUrl calls and the issue has disappeared.