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

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Hi!

Francois Suter wrote:
> 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?

Path cache stays. If entries are there, realurl will still find pages using old path. And you can set expiration time for old paths if you want (Web>Info module).

To make all your URLs go to path cache, make a page with sitemap and visit this page when you are logged out from BE.

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