Rewriting URL in Sitecore

Question

I am new to sitecore, all my url to the pages in my project looks like the following

 http://domain/Inventory/Pages/AboutUs.aspx
 http://domain/Inventory/Pages/ContactUs.aspx

Here i need to convert all the url's to the following format

 http://domain/AboutUs.aspx
 http://domain/ContactUs.aspx

Here is my Content tree structure

 +Content
   +Inventory
     +Pages
       AboutUs
       ContactUs
       Home

Inventory and Pages are directories, these directories should not appear in my browser url

Please help me in this.

Answer 1

If I understand you correctly, you don't need to do any URL rewriting, just configure the start item in Sitecore.

In the web.config file you will see a section called <sites> with a node called <site name="website".. this node has an attribute called startItem . Change it's value from the default to /Inventory/Pages . Note that with this setup and your current content tree you would have hostname/home and hostname/AboutUs . If you went to hostname/ you would be browsing the 'Pages' item which might not be what you intend? It would be more conventional to have a structure such as

+Sitecore
  +Content
    +Inventory
      +Home
        +AboutUs
        +ContactUs

Answer 2

You can set root path and start path of your site in SiteDefination.config file under app_Config\\Include. You don't need to reset content tree structure.

 rootPath="/sitecore/content/Inventory"
 startItem="/Pages"

please make sure to enable SiteDeffination.config if this is disable