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Additional Page URL(s) question

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OK, so I had a page at this location:
http://dibbsolutions.com/medisoft/activation-code/...

But created a new better page here: (and deleted the page above)
http://dibbsolutions.com/support-training/medisoft-registration/...

I want it so when someone tries to go to the first link it goes to the second link instead. I thought putting the old path in the 'additional page URLs' properties would do the trick but it doesn't do it.

What am I missing?
dibbc
 
olliephillips replied on at Permalink Reply
olliephillips
I'd be inclined to do this in your .htaccess

Something like:- 
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redirect 301 /medisoft/activation-code/ http://dibbsolutions.com/support-training/medisoft-registration/
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The 301 will avoid any duplicate content issues, which you might get if you use the additional urls option
dibbc replied on at Permalink Reply
dibbc
So what does the "Additional Page URL(s)" option do on a page then?

I thought the point of it was so that a page could have a few different URLs point to it.
olliephillips replied on at Permalink Reply
olliephillips
It does (or should) allow you to have multiple URLs to one page, but the htaccess method is better IMO since you're telling search engines that your old page has gone, but the resource can be found at a new location.

Just mapping different paths to the same page doesn't do this.
Shotster replied on at Permalink Reply
Shotster
> I thought putting the old path in the 'additional
> page URLs' properties would do the trick

It should.

> but it doesn't do it.

What does it do?

-Steve
dibbc replied on at Permalink Reply
dibbc
It was saying "404 page not found", but I got to thinking a little, cleared the cache from the Dashboard, and now it works.

So looks like I was doing it correctly from the beginning, just didn't clear the cache.

Thanks guys.
Shotster replied on at Permalink Reply
Shotster
> just didn't clear the cache.

Yeah, that's still gets me occasionally. :-/

-Steve