SXA Lower case URL

Challenge:

As per SEO Best practice, We were trying to set all URLs to lower case for our SXA Solution.

Based on my NON-SXA Learning. I thought it will be changed in one place. But it had changed at one more place. Which I couldn’t locate easily from the documentation. So, thought to share with you to save your time!

Solution:

We made following change:

But that didn’t give us the desired results. A quick search helped us to find this post which outlines a few approaches: https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/questions/16504/sxa-search-results-render-link-url-lowercase (Thank you!)

We tried following config file and it worked!

	<?xml version="1.0"?>
	<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
	<sitecore>
	<linkManager>
	<providers>
	<add name="localizedProvider">
	<patch:attribute name="lowercaseUrls">true</patch:attribute>
	</add>
	</providers>
	</linkManager>
	<links>
	<urlBuilder>
	<lowercaseUrls>true</lowercaseUrls>
	</urlBuilder>
	</links>
	</sitecore>
	</configuration>

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	<rules>
	<!– Take redirectType="Temporary" out of production if needed – Current live site has same configuration –>
	<rule name="LowerCaseRule – not including querystring" stopProcessing="true">
	<match url="(.*)" />
	<conditions>
	<add input="{PATH_INFO}" pattern=".*[A-Z]" ignoreCase="false" />
	<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
	<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/(api)" negate="true" />
	<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/(sitecore)" negate="true" />
	<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/(sitecore modules)" negate="true" />
	<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/-/" negate="true" />
	<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern=".*(-/media).*" negate="true" />
	<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern=".*(~/media).*" negate="true" />
	<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern=".*(~/icon).*" negate="true" />
	<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="WebResource.axd" negate="true" />
	<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="ScriptResource.axd" negate="true" />
	<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="jsnlog.logger" negate="true" />
	<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd" negate="true" />
	<add input="{REQUEST_METHOD}" matchType="Pattern" pattern="POST" ignoreCase="true" negate="true" />
	<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/(identity)" negate="true" />
	</conditions>
	<action type="Redirect" url="/{ToLower:{R:1}}" appendQueryString="true" redirectType="Temporary" />
	</rule>
	</rules>

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One more thing — If you are also looking for a way to redirect any URL to lower case then this is a great post: https://blog.coates.dk/2018/01/15/lower-casing-rewrite-rules-breaks-the-sitecore-client/ – I had to modify it for Identity service – Added our version (Tested on Sitecore 9.3) in the gist above.

Happy SEO!