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The validity of the string that forms the identifier is dependent on the operating system on which XperienCentral is running. When an alias redirect is created, a new directory is created on the file system of the server in this location: <xperiencentral-root>\webmanager-webapps\webmanager-static-webapp\target\webmanager-static-webapp-xx, where "xx" is the version of XperienCentral you are running. The name of the directory matches the name of the alias that you create. For example, if you create an alias URL named "Products", then you would see the following folder created in the path listed above:
The name of the alias URL you create must be a valid directory or folder name for the operating system in which XperienCentral is running.
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- Navigate to Configuration > Server Configuration.
- Click [Redirects].
- Click [Add Redirect]. The "Add Redirect" section appears.
- In the "Name" field enter the internal name of the alias. This name is descriptive and only used to identify the alias URL in XperienCentral.
- In the "Alias URL" field, enter the string for the alias. The alias can include spaces but no special characters. The string can but does not have to include an extension such as .htm or .html and likewise can be just the alias string or the string preceded by a forward slash (
/homefor example). - To select a page in the current web initiative, click [Choose URL]. The Advanced Search dialog box appears. For example:
- Select the page to assign as the target URL and then click [Select].
- To assign an external address as the target URL, enter the fully qualified address in the "Target URL" field.
- Set the frameset option. Selecting "Yes" means that the alias URL will appear in the browser's address bar. Selecting "No" means that the target URL will not appear in the browser's address bar. For example:
- Click [Apply]. The redirect is added.
- Click [Dump now] to complete the operation. For example:
- Click [Apply]. The alias redirect is added to the list.
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- Select the checkbox to the left of the redirect that you want to delete.
- Click [Delete]:
The redirect is deleted.
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In XperienCentral, you can save static versions of dynamic web pages to disk in a process known as "dumping". When you dump a page, a static HTML file containing the page's contents is created. There is a speed advantage for pages that have been dumped because XperienCentral does not have to generate the content for a page when it is requested. You can set how often a static variant of a page is saved to disk (for instance, once every two minutes). Often the home page of a website is dumped because it is the most visited page and therefore has the highest number of requests. Pages that have been dumped with the extension ".html" are processed by the Apache web server:
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The extension given to the dumped HTML file should be different from the extension of the friendly URLs. Apache determines, based on a fixed pattern in the URL, where the page data should come from. By default, Apache transfers those URLs beginning with |
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- Navigate to Configuration > Server Configuration.
- Click the [Dumped Content] tab:
- In the "Description" field, enter a description for the page you want to dump.
- Click [Apply]. Fields for specifying the name of the page and how often it should be dumped appear.
In the "Relative URL" field, enter the friendly URL for the page, for example
/GX/Contact.htm.Note The relative URL that you specify must match the friendly URL listed under "URLs used by active versions" in the "SEO" tab of the Properties Widget.
- In the "Filename" field, specify the name of the HTML file.
- In the "Time" field, enter the number of minutes and seconds after which XperienCentral will create a new static version of the page.
- Select "Yes" for "Active" if you want the page to be dumped every x minutes and x seconds as specified in the time field. Select "No" if you want to dump the page only one time.
- Click [Dump now]. The page will be dumped immediately.
Thereafter, the page will be dumped every x minutes and y seconds that you specified if "Active" is set to "Yes". (every 2 minutes in the example below):
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Caching
Caching is essential for high traffic websites. It will handle the load created by the many page requests by using an intelligent mechanism that returns pages without having to regenerate them completely. The XperienCentral caching module is also tailored to not interfere with interaction and personalization, therefore visitors to your site will not notice that they are looking at a largely static website.
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Navigate to Configuration > Server Configuration > Caching. The Caching tab appears as follows:
For each object type in XperienCentral, the following caching details are shown:
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