Create Home Page Links
If your host is listed in , and only one locale is used for the site, you can create links to the home page that are search-friendly because they don't require additional information to determine the locale. In this case, you can use a hostname-only URL instead of generating links to the homepage via a Salesforce B2C Commerce pipeline. If you have a multi-locale site, ignore the rest of this topic.
For example, for a home page link in the top navigation bar, instead of generating the link via pipeline:
<a
href="${URLUtils.http('Home-Show')}">home</a>
Which results in the full B2C Commerce URL being shown:
http://www.sitegenesis.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-SiteGenesis-Site/default/Home-Show.
Instead, directly reference the host name in a link such as the following:
<a
href="http://${request.httpHost}/">home</a>
Review code that is taken from the SiteGenesis application and new custom code. This is because SiteGenesis is based on a multi-locale site and uses pipeline to generate home page links.
Check that the home page link is generated via the pipeline Home-Show in the following SiteGenesis templates:
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components/header/header.isml -
components/breadcrumbs.isml -
components/contentbreadcrumbs.isml -
components/productbreadcrumbs.isml -
search/components/productsearchbreadcrumbs.isml
When these templates are used in a custom application, the code must be modified to deliver the hostname-only URL.
Issuing Hostname-Only Requests
Hostname-only requests can be issued with or without one or more parameters, with the following default destinations:
| Hostname only | Default destination | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Without parameters | Default-Start |
www.my-host.com/
|
| With one or more parameters | RedirectURL-Start |
www.my-host.com/?param=aValue, enabling
you to use the mapping rules functionality.
|
The configuration value
enables you to forward hostname requests with parameters to the configured
pipeline, for example:
apply-to-host-only-request-with-params
"www.my-host.com":[{"pipeline":"Home-Show", "apply-to-host-only-request-with-params":"true"}] This
example forwards the requests www.my-host.com/ and
www.my-host.com/?param=aValue to the Home-Show
pipeline and preserves the original URL parameters.