[TYPO3-dev] Keeping a history of old URLs with RealURL

[Francois Suter]

Hi all,

I'm not sure if this post is appropriate for the dev list, but since it 
involves development, here goes :-)

When a page is renamed or moved, the encode cache of RealURL is flushed. 
This is fine because it allows for the generation of the new, updated 
speaking URLs. It is a problem because it means old URLs cannot be found 
anymore. This is bad for external search engines and bookmarked links.

I try to understand what happens under the hood and found where the 
cache tables (both encode and decode) were emptied. It seems that this 
would be a good point to select what is in the encode table before it is 
flushed and create corresponding entries in the redirects table, so that 
old URLs are not lost.

Would this be a good way of doing things or am I missing something?

Cheers

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Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch