Double redirect of home page when using URL mapping

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j***@meadwestvaco.com

2006-12-18 19:08:12 UTC

We have the home page of our site mapped as follows:

http://www.ataglance.com ->
http://www.ataglance.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/home_-1_10052_10052_10002_false

But this then redirects again to->
http://www.ataglance.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/TopCategoriesDisplay?storeId=10052&catalogId=10002&portfolio=false&shopStoreID=10052

All our other URL mapping works fine. Why is this happening?

Thanks,
John

m***@ca.ibm.com

2006-12-19 16:28:23 UTC

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There may be something in this page to help you.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wchelp/v6r0m0/topic/com.ibm.commerce.developer.doc/tasks/tsdcreatesitemap.htm

geo

2006-12-21 20:24:40 UTC

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Most likely because that is what the page is telling it to do.

The
http://www.ataglance.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/home_-1_10052_10052_10002_false

has this for the returned html which is doing a simple redirect
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh"
content="0;URL=/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/TopCategoriesDisplay?storeId=10052&catalogId=10002&portfolio=false&shopStoreID=10052
"/>

</head>
</html>On other notes. Do you realize that you are cross selling people
products that are out of stock? That seems really odd. Not to be overly
critical since your are just getting going with your new Brulant site, but

Post by j***@meadwestvaco.com
http://www.ataglance.com ->
http://www.ataglance.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/home_-1_10052_10052_10002_false
But this then redirects again to->
http://www.ataglance.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/TopCategoriesDisplay?storeId=10052&catalogId=10002&portfolio=false&shopStoreID=10052
All our other URL mapping works fine. Why is this happening?
Thanks,
John

j***@meadwestvaco.com

2007-01-04 16:26:13 UTC

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Thanks, that led me to the problem. The URL mapping was going to StoreView instead of TopCategories.

This time of year is all about low inventory for us. Business wants to keep them visible so people can see the x-sells and refills. Brulant...don't want to talk about that. This implementation still makes me twitch. Images have always been a problem...need to get creative to think WEB and not just CATALOG.