Hi all

Bit of a newbie question I'm afraid.
I have an old html website which has been rebuilt in Joomla! I'm using joomsef to create friendly URL's and title tags etc. My question is the best way to redirect the old URL's to the new Joomla! URL's. Can this be done using the 'Manage 301 redirects' feature in joomsef or should I manually change the .htaccess file?

Also should I point the old html URL's to the core Joomla! URL's or the joomsef friendly URL's?

Any advice or help would be appreciated.

Thanks

David J

Hello,

You can use the Manage 301 redirects feature for this. Just enter the old URL to "Moved from URL" field and the new SEF URL to the "Moved to URL" field. Both URLs should be relative to the website root, so instead of:
use just

However, this only works if the old url does not contain any parameters (like ?this=that&these=those), in that case you would need to manually edit your .htaccess file.

Best regards,
ARTIO Support Team

david wrote:


Hi!
In which manner we must edit the .htaccess file?

I want to redirect www.esonet.org/Application/vis_articoli....p;sett=1&Titolo='Il Manifesto di ESONET'
to
www.esonet.org/il-progetto/il-manifesto-di-esonet

What must i write into the .htaccess?

Thank you very much

Hi David. Thank you for your reply. I have some URL's like '?this=that&these=those' so it sounds like a bit of both methods to create the redirects.

David J

Hello,

You can now use the new Aliases functionality in the new 3.6.3 version of JoomSEF to redirect old URLs even with PHP variables to the new SEF URLs.
Go to Manage SEF URLs, click the URL you want to redirect to, and on the Aliases page put the old URLs to the text box one per line. You can use URLs like old-url.htm?this=that&these=those - no more .htaccess changes needed.

Best regards,
ARTIO Support Team

Thank you David

I noticed this when upgrading and hoped the the feature you promised was this. It works a treat! This software is getting better and better.

Thank you!

David