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

[Francois Suter]

Hi all,

> 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 looked into that again trying to take into account all the answers I 
received. What it boils down to is that it works fine when using the 
"autoUpdatePathCache" property and, yes, there is a bug with 
"expireDays" (mostly old URLs never expire).

I have summed up my experiments in the wiki:

http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/RealURL#Preserving_a_history_of_URLs

Maybe part of it can make in into the manual to make things clearer.

Cheers

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