After a number of trials, I finally managed to setup Habitat for Sitecore 8.2
The instance name used is habitatdev
. I followed the git document on configuring these custom names in 3 config files in the VS solution.
The home page http://habitatdev works fine. But when trying to browse to any other page (say "About"), it goes to http://habitat.habitatdev/about.
This is with all other pages. I see there are redirection modules and solutions to create a new layout for redirections.
Is there any simple fix like a property in web.config where we can set the Items to navigate to http://habitatdev/[name] instead of http://habitat.habitatdev/[name]
FIX:
Open this config - \Website\App_Config\Include\Project\Habitat.Website.config
Look for the site
and cacheSizes
properties.
Original:
<sites>
<site name="habitatdev" patch:after="site[@name='modules_website']"
targetHostName="habitat.$(rootHostName)" database="web" virtualFolder="/" .... />
</sites>
<cacheSizes>
<sites>
<habitat>
<html>50MB</html>
<registry>0</registry>
<viewState>0</viewState>
<xsl>25MB</xsl>
</habitat>
</sites>
</cacheSizes>
Changed to:
<sites>
<site name="habitatdev" patch:after="site[@name='modules_website']"
targetHostName="$(rootHostName)" database="web" virtualFolder="/" .... />
</sites>
<cacheSizes>
<sites>
<habitatdev>
<html>50MB</html>
<registry>0</registry>
<viewState>0</viewState>
<xsl>25MB</xsl>
</habitatdev>
</sites>
</cacheSizes>
The problem (looking at your comment) is in your site config.
You have:
<site name="habitat" targetHostName="habitat.habitatdev" database="web" virtualFolder="/" physicalFolder="/" rootPath="/sitecore/content/habitat" startItem="/Home" ... />
which means that when Sitecore generates url, it creates them using targetHostName="habitat.habitatdev"
for their host names.
Just change it to
<site name="habitat" targetHostName="habitatdev" database="web" virtualFolder="/" physicalFolder="/" rootPath="/sitecore/content/habitat" startItem="/Home" ... />
and all the urls will be http://habitatdev/...