I finally rolled the dice and migrated my site with thousands of URLs over to JoomSEF from OpenSEF. For the most part things seem to have gone well and I am totally impressed with the apparent speed increase that I see already with JoomSEF. I have one major problem though and I do not have any idea how to fix it in JoomSEF:
I have hundreds of links, hand coded into about forty articles, that point to files such as this:
www.musicedmagic.com/docdownload/task,doc_download/gid,752/
all of these hard coded links are coming up as 404 errors even though they worked on the old OpenSEF version of the site. I tried to go into the JoomSEF 301 URL creation and set:
www.musicedmagic.com/free-downloads
to point to
www.musicedmagic.com/docdownload
I even went into Custom Redirects and set:
index.php?option=com_docman&Itemid=54
to point to
docdownload
But neither of these seem to work. I cannot bear the thought of going in and changing hundreds of URLS by hand in these articles. What am I doing wrong and how can I get it to redirect properly?
This is on a Joomla 1.0.13 setup running the most recent version of JoomSEF.