Tag: Sitecore

Creating a custom 404 Page in Sitecore

Nobody wants to see the standard Sitecore 404 page. Thankfully it's really easy to change the error pages a user is redirected to through some config settings.

Your error pages can be pages in Sitecore or static HTML files. For 404 pages I would normally use a Sitecore page, that way content authors can still manage its content. For an Error Page I would recommend a static html file to avoid issues with the Error page potentially error-ing.

Add these to a patch file and update the urls accordingly:

1<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
2  <sitecore>
3    <settings>
4      <!--  ITEM NOT FOUND HANDLER
5            Url of page handling 'Item not found' errors
6      -->
7      <setting name="ItemNotFoundUrl">
8        <patch:attribute name="value">/ErrorPages/404.html</patch:attribute>
9      </setting>
10      <!--  LINK ITEM NOT FOUND HANDLER
11            Url of page handling 'Link item not found' errors
12      -->
13      <setting name="LinkItemNotFoundUrl">
14        <patch:attribute name="value">/ErrorPages/404.html</patch:attribute>
15      </setting>
16      <!--  LAYOUT NOT FOUND HANDLER
17            Url of page handling 'Layout not found' errors
18      -->
19      <setting name="LayoutNotFoundUrl">
20        <patch:attribute name="value">/ErrorPages/404.html</patch:attribute>
21      </setting>
22      <!--  ERROR HANDLER
23            Url of page handling generic errors
24      -->
25       <setting name="ErrorPage">
26        <patch:attribute name="value">/ErrorPages/Error.html</patch:attribute>
27      </setting>
28    </settings>
29  </sitecore>
30</configuration>

These settings are already defined in the web.config file and changing them here will have the same effect, but I recommend adding patch config files as it will make your solution easier to update in the future.

Getting the URL of a Sitecore Item

You may expect a Sitecore Item to contain a property for its URL, however to actually get the URL of an item you need to use the LinkManager class.

There are also a few different options when getting an items URL, such as if you include the language code or not.

The following example gets the URL for an item with no language code and has a path relative to the site it is in. This is useful when your Sitecore instance may have multiple sites running and your home node isn't at the root of the content tree.

1Sitecore.Links.UrlOptions urlOptions = new Sitecore.Links.UrlOptions(); urlOptions.SiteResolving = true; urlOptions.LanguageEmbedding = Sitecore.Links.LanguageEmbedding.Never; string url = Sitecore.Links.LinkManager.GetItemUrl(item, urlOptions);

Sitecore: Setting the login page title

If you have multiple Sitecore sites or separate environments (e.g. Development, Test, Staging), a good way to tell them apart is by setting the title on the login page.

The best way of doing this is by creating a patch file with the following contents:

1<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
2  <sitecore>
3    <settings>
4      <setting name="WelcomeTitle">
5        <patch:attribute name="value">LOGIN PAGE TITLE GOES HERE</patch:attribute>
6      </setting>
7    </settings>
8  </sitecore>
9</configuration>