I am having some problems when setting up 301 redirects in JoomSEF. All of them work fine except for when I use a + sign in the "Moved from URL" field.

E.g.

Moved from URL: tag-cell+phone.html
Moved to URL: tags/cell-phone

I have checked the "Moved to URL" and it exists and pages loads fine. But if I type in the "Moved from URL" I get a 404 page not found error.

Also I am using the K2 Extension with JoomSEF 4.

Hi,
The plus sign works as space character in URLs, so there are problems with it. Try creating the redirect with space instead of plus sign, like:
Moved from URL: tag-cell phone.html
Moved to URL: tags/cell-phone
But I'm not sure if it will work. Please let us know so we can try fixing it in future versions.

Hi dajo,

It is sorting of working. Here is what is happening.

I changed the Moved from URL to - tag-cell phone.html

Now if I go to the Moved to URL - tags/cell-phone

Then try the redirect at - tag-cell phone.html to worked correctly. But if I do not visit the Moved to URL first the redirect do not work.

Is there some kind of caching going on here or something?

Also will a large number of 301s slow down my site? I currently have over 3000 301s setup and it seems like my site has slowed down.

Hi,
It's possible that your web browser caches the redirects somehow, but there's no cache for redirects in JoomSEF, so I don't know what's going on there.
Of course as more redirects are stored in database, the longer it takes for MySQL to find the correct record, but normally servers should handle tables with thousands of records without problems.