Issues with vanity_url rule on dispatcher

Hi Kristian,

I have copied /libs/granite/dispatcher/content/vanityUrls.html  to /content/vanityUrls.html and using /content/vanityUrls.html in the dispatcher configuration and i could able to hit /content/vanityUrls.html URL from the dispatcher without logging in.

When i restart my server and there is no vanity url text file in the server , then dispatcher hits /content/vanityUrls.html and stores the vanity url at tmp location and servers vanity URL. but any changes after the restart , is not being picked up by the server (  periodic vanity URL sync is not being performed )

Regards,

Anand

For clarification, I'm running dispatcher 4.1.11 Darwin (OSX).

anandr1644048 wrote...

/libs/granite/dispatcher/content/vanityUrls.html  is accessible and returns the list of available vanity url. but I don’t see any logs writing in access.log or dispatcher log files regarding ‘vanityUrls.html”

 

 

Hi anandr1644048,

When you call /libs/granite/dispatcher/content/vanityUrls.html are you calling it via the publish instance directly or via the dispatcher?  

I noticed that when I call localhost:4503/libs/granite/dispatcher/content/vanityUrls.html I get a 404 returned even though I installed the Vanity URLs components.  If I log into the publish instance and try again it correctly accesses the URL.  However when I call via the dispatcher, I get a 404.

So it seems that the call requires authentication.  When I request my vanity URL via dispatcher at publish.kristian.com/ktest I get the following in the dispatcher.log:

[Fri Jan 29 12:53:56 2016] [D] [75615(140735164698624)] Found farm publish for publish.kristian.com [Fri Jan 29 12:53:56 2016] [D] [75615(140735164698624)] checking [/ktest] [Fri Jan 29 12:53:56 2016] [D] [75615(140735164698624)] request URL has no extension: /ktest [Fri Jan 29 12:53:56 2016] [D] [75615(140735164698624)] cache-action for [/ktest]: NONE [Fri Jan 29 12:53:56 2016] [D] [75615(140735164698624)] Checking vanity URLs [Fri Jan 29 12:53:56 2016] [D] [75615(140735164698624)] Vanity URL file (/Library/WebServer/Documents/publish/vanity_urls) not found, fetching... [Fri Jan 29 12:53:56 2016] [W] [75615(140735164698624)] Unable to fetch vanity URLs from localhost:4503/libs/granite/dispatcher/content/vanityUrls.html: remote server returned: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found [Fri Jan 29 12:53:56 2016] [D] [75615(140735164698624)] Filter rejects: GET /ktest HTTP/1.1 [Fri Jan 29 12:53:56 2016] [I] [75615(140735164698624)] "GET /ktest" - - 7ms

and this is my access.log on the publish instance:

0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 - anonymous 29/Jan/2016:13:10:42 +0800 "GET /libs/granite/dispatcher/content/vanityUrls.html HTTP/1.1" 404 126 "-" "-"

If I try and access the URL in my browser while logged into the publish instance via localhost:4503/libs/granite/dispatcher/content/vanityUrls.html this is the line in the access.log:

0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 - admin 29/Jan/2016:13:13:25 +0800 "GET /libs/granite/dispatcher/content/vanityUrls.html HTTP/1.1" 200 7 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.111 Safari/537.36"

and I also have the correct output of /ktest on the screen from the Vanity URL component.

So it seems that either authentication is required for the call, or ACLs need to be updated to allow anon access to /libs/granite/dispatcher/content/vanityUrls.  Did you need to do this to get it working?

I'm running:

• AEM 6.1
• Apache 2.4
• Dispatcher 4.1.11

Thanks,
Kristian

/libs/granite/dispatcher/content/vanityUrls.html  is accessible and returns the list of available vanity url. but I don’t see any logs writing in access.log or dispatcher log files regarding ‘vanityUrls.html”