What am I missing for this CQ5/AEM URL rewriting scenario?

Question

I basically want short URLs to get resolved and HTML pages to be generated with short URLs for a CQ5 website. So far short URLs are getting mapped to long URLs as expected, but

Answer 1

We finally managed to pinpoint the issue and fix this.

Somebody had added a com.day.cq.rewriter.linkchecker.impl.LinkCheckerImpl.xml under /apps/myapp/config.publish with the following content:

I think the combination of check_override_patterns and special_link_patterns had disabled link shortening.

Removing this file made link shortening work again.