Configuring same short URL/Vanity URL for different sites with https – AEM/Adobe CQ5

This post will explain how to configure same short URL/Vanity URL for different sites that is accessible through https in Adobe CQ5/AEM.

Recently we had a scenario to be implemented, two different websites needs to be accessed with same URL and with https protocol.

e.g

https://example1.com/en.html

https://example2.com/en.html

Both the sites are mapped to different nodes as below

https://example1.com/en.html  --> /content/example1/en

https://example2.com/en.html --> /content/example2/en

Create the redirect rules in dispatchers, inside the corresponding virtual host (httpd.conf) to redirect the http request to https and to shorten the URL’s .

RewriteRule ^/content/example1/(.*)$  /$1 [NE,L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off

RewriteRule ^/$ https:// example1.com/en.html

RewriteRule ^/en.html https:// example1.com/en.html

RewriteRule ^/en/(.*)$ https:// example1.com/en/$1

Repeat the same for example2.com and for all the dispatchers.

Mapping in publisher :

Go to <<AEM Publisher Host>>:4503/system/console/configMgr with admin credentials. Search for Apache Sling Resource Resolver, and change the value of mapping location from /etc/map to /etc/map.publish

Go to crx/de console,

Create a node with name map.publish of type sling:folder under /etc folder

Create a node with name https of type sling:OrderedFolder under /etc/map.publish

Create a node with name example1.com of type sling:mapping  under /etc/map.publish/https and give the properties as below,

Name : Sling:internalRedirect

Type : String[]

Value: /content/example1

Create a node redirect under /etc/map.publish/https/example1.com/ as type

sling : mapping  and give the following properties.

Name : Sling: internalRedirect

Type: String []

Value: /content/example1/$1,/$1 2.

Name : Sling: match

Type: String

Value: (.+)$

Repeat the steps for example2.com and for all the publisher.

Now the websites can be accessed as follow

example1.com/en.html 

example2.com/en.html

The Adobe CQ version referred here is Adobe CQ6.1.