Hi there, new to Squiz and this forum (just making excuses) and here's my first post…
We have a lot of links that no longer work and simply don't fall out of Google.
For example:
http://www.mymegacorp.com/news/details/1005
http://www.mymegacorp.com/news/details/1006
http://www.mymegacorp.com/news/details/1007
http://www.mymegacorp.com/news/archive?start=340
http://www.mymegacorp.com/news/archive?start=567
http://www.mymegacorp.com/news/archive?start=789
We have moved all the news to much more sensible and SEO-friendly URLs:
http://www.mymegacorp.com/home-page/news/some-story
http://www.mymegacorp.com/home-page/news/another-story
http://www.mymegacorp.com/home-page/archive/yet-another-story
Sadly there's no way to translate the IDs from the legacy URLs to the new URLs, therefore I want to redirect anything that goes to /news/[whatever…] to a new URL (/home-page/news/). Is this possible only using Squiz?
Many thanks, Paul.
Hi Paul,
Unfortunately wildcard remaps are not currently possible in Matrix (although there is a Roadmap issue filed to fix this but no ETA).
The way we currently do this is to just add the rules in Apache instead. It's just a simple line that will need to be added by your system/server team to the Apache virtualhost:
RedirectMatch ^/news(.*)$ http://www.mymegacorp.com/home-page/news$1
Hope this helps.
Many thanks; that's what I thought. Now to convince the server guys to let us write some rules for them 