New concrete5 site going live - redirects?

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Hi there,

A new concrete5 site will be taking over from an existing static-HTML-based site.

Current links include "/home.html" etc

Now if I install the new concrete5 site on the root directory, and try to go tohttp://www.sitename.com/home.html I'll get the standard concrete5 'No page could be found at this address.' page.

How do I set up concrete5 to automatically redirect the user to

a) the homepage
b) specific page i.e. if my old page was /products.html, we might want them to go to /products-and-services/products (on the new concrete5 site).

All make sense? Your assistance is appreciated.

Jesse

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jgarcia replied on at Permalink Best Answer Reply
jgarcia
Rather than doing this through concrete5, it would probably be best to setup redirects in a .htaccess file (assuming your site is running on a linux server). Just create a new file called .htaccess (or edit the current one if it already exists) and add the following to it:

Redirect 301 /home.htmlhttp://www.mysite.com/index.php...
Redirect 301 /another-page.htmlhttp://www.mysite.com/another-page...
bryanlewis replied on at Permalink Reply
bryanlewis
A redirect in c5 would be a sweet feature. I don't know if its possible or not but it sure would be a cool addition.
traq replied on at Permalink Reply
traq
You could also try:

-log in and go to the dashboard. Click on the "Sitemap" button.

-click on the page you want to make a redirect for. On the popup menu, click on "Properties."

-click on the "Page Paths and Location" tab. You can enter the old URLs under "Additional Page URL(s)."

Do you want to do this just so current user's bookmarks don't break?