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

[ries van Twisk]

On Feb 6, 2008, at 6:56 AM, Daniel Pötzinger wrote:

> Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] schrieb:
>> Hi Daniel!
>>
>> Daniel Pötzinger wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> You can use "Redirects" in Web>Module for it. I use it quite a lot  
>> on my
>> own sites, works well.
>>
>> But path cache is better because you may have both old a new paths  
>> for
>> page and even several levels of it. For example, old paths was:
>>
>> /path/subpath1/subpath2/subpath3
>>
>> Next you moved page to:
>>
>> /path/subpath1/subpath3
>>
>> So you set expiration time on the old path to a month. RealURL will
>> redirect-permanent during the whole month from old path to new path.
> Can it be set in the BE Info Modul?
>
> Is it really a redirect (Header 303/301) ? Didn't know this feature  
> yet
> then.


it really works,

used it myself after extensive testing for a large site that was  
reorganized.

Ries