Cannot save “shipping” as URL key

This article provides a workaround for the issue when you are not able to save “shipping” as a URL key (e.g., “/shipping”) for products or CMS pages. When you try to save the URL key, you receive an error that indicates that the URL key is a duplicate URL.

Affected products and versions

Adobe Commerce (all deployment methods) 2.4.x

Issue

You cannot save a CMS page with the term “shipping” in the URL key.

Steps to reproduce:

Create a CMS page with URL key as “shipping”.

Expected result:

The page saves with “shipping” in the URL key.

Actual result:

You cannot save and an error appears: The value specified in the URL Key field would generate a URL that already exists.

Cause

Shipping is a reserved word defined in vendor/magento/module-shipping/etc/frontend/routes.xml.

<router id="standard">
      <route id="shipping" frontName="shipping">
          <module name="Magento_Shipping" />
      </route>
  </router>

Solution

You cannot use the term “shipping” in your URL key - however you can use the term “shipping” combined with another letter or number (For example, “shipping1” and “shipping2”). Although the term does not have to be “shipping”+<another number or letter> - the term could be any string as long as the length does not exceed 255 characters.

Perform the following steps:

1. Log in to the Commerce Admin.
2. Go to Marketing > SEO & Search > URL Rewrites.
3. Click Add URL Rewrite.
4. Select Custom on the Create URL Rewrite drop down.
   1. Type in the Request Path “shipping”. Note: The Request Path is what a user enters in the browser and the Target Path is where it should redirect to.
   2. Type in the Target Path the new URL key (For example, “shipping1”).
   3. Select No in the Redirect drop down.

Related reading

• URL Rewrites in our user guide.
• SEO Best Practices in our user guide.