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

[Daniel Pötzinger]

Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] schrieb:
> 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).
> 
But thats not a prefered solution in all cases:
I would expect something like:
- create the new path for cache
- create a 303/301 redirect from the old to the new path and keep that 
redirect for a configured amount of time.