Page URL Displayed as GUID Names Instead of Channel Hierarchy Names (320569)

SYMPTOMS

When you locate a page on a computer that is running Content Management Server (CMS) 2001, the page Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that the Web browser address bar displays is based on the globally unique identifier (GUID) and resembles the following:

http://Server_Name/NR/exeres/SDJF20984DJSKL2098FK2Ddefault.asp

You expect the address bar to display the channel hierarchical name, as follows:

http://Server_Name/intranet/default.htm

Additionally, the page content may not be the most updated version of the page.

CAUSE

CMS 2001 permits site authors to place two pages that have exactly the same name in the same channel. CMS determines which page to send to client browsers when the page is requested based on whether the page is requested by the Authsession.ThisChannel.Posting application programming interface (API) call or by a URL from the client computer. If these two methods select different postings to display, the URL of the page is displayed as a GUID-based name in the client browser.

WORKAROUND

Do not keep two or more postings that have exactly the same names and that are in the Published state in the same channel. CMS site administrators can expire the other versions of the page and keep only one version published.

MORE INFORMATION

This problem typically occurs when Site Deployment imports postings that have identical names but have different GUID references in the database. For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

319512 Site Deployment Import Results in Duplicate Postings