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  • Chad Rosenthal 272 posts 474 karma points
    Apr 29, 2010 @ 14:40
    Chad Rosenthal
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    Mapping from old sites

    Don't know if this is a feature request, or part of the implementation.

    If we are migrating from an existing site to a new site, we often want to map the URL's to the new items. So my questions are:

    1. Does your module do this? I know it works for existing items that are moved....but I'm talking about items that were never in Umbraco to move.

    2. Does this work with extensions outside of .aspx? .asp? .php?

    3. One thing we've done in the past is if your module includes the functionality from #1, then anytime someone enters a url that is not found, then it creates a list of them. The admin can then go and administer them. If they are valid page content, then they can enter the new url for it. If it was an honest misspelling they can delete it.

    This module is a great idea and I look forward to implementing it.

    -C

     

  • Stefan Kip 1606 posts 4098 karma points c-trib
    Apr 29, 2010 @ 17:00
    Stefan Kip
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    Hi Chad!

    Following are the answers to your questions:

    1. Yes, you can map all URL's manually to all content within the Umbraco installation, by following this step from the readme:
      When one wants to create a custom url mapping, just right-click on the 301 URL Tracker node and click 'Create'. Select the document to create the custom url mapping for

      There you can enter any URL you'd like with a note (optional), like /some/url, or /some/url.aspx or /some/url.whatever

    2. Everything works, with .aspx, with .asp, with .php, with .something-else

    3. It won't create a list, because it 'fixes itself'. When a none existing url is found, it looks in the URL Mapping list if it exists there and redirects the user to the correct page, with a 301 HTTP code (so Google for e.g. will save the new url)

    Thanks for the compliments and good luck with the implementation. If you encouter a bug, please post is in the Bugs forum :)

  • Sander Houttekier 114 posts 163 karma points
    May 05, 2010 @ 22:48
    Sander Houttekier
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    to go further on what was said here

    It won't create a list, because it 'fixes itself'. When a none existing
    url is found, it looks in the URL Mapping list if it exists there and
    redirects the user to the correct page, with a 301 HTTP code (so Google
    for e.g. will save the new url)

    what about a non existing url that does not have a correspondig mapping in the list?
    are those saved somewhere? so the admin can for example look at what pages need to be added with a custom mapping?

  • Stefan Kip 1606 posts 4098 karma points c-trib
    May 10, 2010 @ 16:25
    Stefan Kip
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    Nope, they are not saved somewhere, but it's a little work to implement it, so I'll put it on the feature requests list ;-)

  • Stefan Kip 1606 posts 4098 karma points c-trib
    May 11, 2010 @ 14:42
    Stefan Kip
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    @Sander

    Added this feature to version 1.1, which I'll upload today :-)

    Please mark this thread as solved, thanks!

  • Stefan Kip 1606 posts 4098 karma points c-trib
    May 12, 2010 @ 20:02
    Stefan Kip
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    Just uploaded v1.1, please mark this thread as solved :-)

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