Configuration Wizard instructions: Modify site URLs for search engine optimization

Use the Configuration Wizard to change or remove /wps/portal (context root and default home values) Select an option to remove navigational state information from site URLs. This procedure is intended only as a reference. After answering questions and providing information about the environment, the wizard generates a custom configuration procedure. The following procedure represents all possible configuration steps. The instructions generated might include or exclude specific steps based on the wizard selections. Ensure that all of the syndication target servers are on Combined Cumulative Fix 08 or later before modifying URLs for search engine optimization. Enabling SEO options on servers that are not on Combined Cumulative Fix 08 or later could disrupt deployment. This is especially true for using syndication,

Questions and answers

1. Validate the context root value selected.

   Condition	Select Yes to modify your context root and connect to portal server to validate settings.
   ConfigEngine task	validate-context-root

2. Stop the portal server.

   Condition	None
   ConfigEngine task	None

3. Modify the servlet paths for all applications and portlets.

   Condition	Select Yes to modify your context root.
   ConfigEngine task	modify-servlet-path modify-servlet-path-portlets

4. Add navigational state information to your friendly URL.

   Condition	Select Yes to contain navigational state information.
   ConfigEngine task	configure-nav-stateinfo-urls

5. Remove navigational state information from your friendly URL.

   Condition	Select No to contain navigational state information.
   ConfigEngine task	configure-nav-stateless-urls

6. Configure the external web server.

   Condition	Select Yes to use an external web server.
   ConfigEngine task	None

   Go to Configure the external web server for instructions.

7. Change the JSP components in the Web Resources v70 Library.

   Condition	Select Yes used an external web server.
   ConfigEngine task	None

   Go to Change the JSP components in the Web Resources v70 Library

8. Oprional: If your custom themes use Dojo, update the themes to reference the correct Dojo context root.

   Condition	Select Yes used HCL Web Content Manager.
   ConfigEngine task	None

   Go to Updating the themes to reference the correct Dojo context root

9. Refresh your search collection and regather documents.

   Condition	None
   ConfigEngine task	None

   Go to Refreshing the search collection for instructions.

10. Resynchronize the nodes and restart the cluster.

    Condition	None
    ConfigEngine task	None

    Go to Resynchronize nodes and restart cluster for instructions.

11. Oprional: Update syndicator and subscriber servers that reference your modified site URL. If we do not use syndication, skip this step.

    Condition	Click Modify Site URLs for SEO from the Set Up a Cluster page.
    ConfigEngine task	None

    See Updating syndicator and subsubscriber servers that reference your URL

12. Oprional: Disable friendly URL redirects.

    Condition	Select to remove navigational state information from the site URL.
    ConfigEngine task	None

    Go to Disabling friendly URL redirects for instructions.

13. Oprional: Update the personalization publishing server with the new site URL.

    Condition	Select used HCL Web Content Manager.
    ConfigEngine task	None

    Go to Update the personalization publishing server with the new site URL for instructions.

14. Oprional: Redeploy the IBM Web Application Bridge to a virtual host.

    Condition	Select Yes to modify your context root.
    ConfigEngine task	None

    Go to Redeploying the IBM Web Application Bridge to a virtual host