[TYPO3-english] Riedirects in RealURL when changing the name of a section

[Ron Hall]

Hi Dimitry,

I waited to respond on this to try some more things. I think I have  
found an answer and wanted to close the thread with what I came up with.

Given the example I gave of a page tree of:

Section 1
Section 2
    Page 1
    Page 2
    Page 3
Section 3
Section 4

If I change the name of of a subpage like "Page 3" to "New Page 3"  
then RealURL will make a new ID-to-path mapping the reflects the new  
name and also set the old path to "expired" which will send a  
permanent redirect response if someone hits the old url. This is fine

However, if instead I change the section page, say "Section-2" to  
"Section-2-New" then "Page 3" will respond to both "mydomain.com/ 
section-2-new/page-3" and to "mydomain.com/section-2/page-3" and it  
does not give a permanent redirect response on the old url which is  
what I want.

Of course, in the case of a small section it is no trouble setting up  
redirects manually but for large sections it could be an issue

Having said all that it looks like I have figured a way to handle such  
a situation.

I have used a directive in the apache configuration like this:

RedirectMatch permanent /section-2/(.*)$ /section-2-new/$1

This takes any of the old URLs and reroutes them using the new section  
name in the url and sends a permanent redirect as a response code.  
This is what I want since the reason for all this is to send the  
proper response to search engines to help with SEO.

Also, I think it is probably good after doing all this to clear the ID- 
to-Path mapping for the section  so it can all be regenerated.

Thanks,
Ron




On Nov 12, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Dmitry Dulepov wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Ron Hall wrote:
>> Is there a way to set up code to handle redirects for all pages in  
>> the
>> section so that Google gets a proper permanent redirect or do I  
>> have to
>> set up redirects for each page? Having to do for each page could be
>> daunting or prone to error on a section with many pages or news  
>> pages.
>
> Doesn't it work already?
>
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> Ron Hall wrote:

I have a site where I want to change a name of a section. Say I have a
page tree like this:

Section 1
Section 2
    Page 1
    Page 2
    Page 3
    ...
Section 3
Section 4

I want to change the name of "Section 2" to "My New Section 2"

Of course, the url for all the pages in that section will change. For
example,

mydomain.com/section-2/page-1/

will change to

mydomain.com/my-new-section-2/page-1/

Is there a way to set up code to handle redirects for all pages in the
section so that Google gets a proper permanent redirect or do I have
to set up redirects for each page? Having to do for each page could be
daunting or prone to error on a section with many pages or news pages.

Thanks,