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I hate the thought of losing my search weights to my initially flat HTML site.

The site was domain.com/ and each of the 80+ pages was an HTML file:

domain.com/store.html
domain.com/about.html
domain.com/pickles.html
etc.

If I'm going to replace my site with a C5 installation, is there a reasonable way to set up how C5 handles URLs so that my links don't break?

I know I could do server-side redirects, but I'd rather not if i can avoid it.

Thanks!

Edward
EdwardMartinIII
 
lackadaize replied on at Permalink Reply
lackadaize
If you use pretty url's it will handle this problem. Go here to the following link for documentation:

http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/using-concrete5/dashboard/sy...

Let me know if you have any questions.
lackadaize replied on at Permalink Reply
lackadaize
Also, to be clear, you'll need to set up the .htaccess file with the code that you're given by the CMS after Pretty URL's are set. This is somewhat server side, but it won't hinder your site in any way.
EdwardMartinIII replied on at Permalink Reply
EdwardMartinIII
Hi!

Sorry, I may not have explained it right.

I understand pretty URLs, and those work fine.

My structure is many layers deep.

So, for example, home >> projects >> movies >> workshop films >> [title of film]

On the flat site, that looks like this:
BaseURL/WS_MovieTitle.html

With pretty URLs, it does this:

BaseURL/projects/movies/workshopfilms/MovieTitle/

My preference is to have the site still use the same URLs as the previous flat files -- even when the visitor is on the website.

I can set up in my .htaccess file a permanent redirect from BaseURL/WS_MovieTitle.html to BaseURL/projects/movies/workshopfilms/MovieTitle/ but that's not what I'm trying to do. As they browse around on site, I want the pages to have the same URLs that they had, and when I link via the nav tool to a page, THAT'S the page it goes to (BaseURL/WS_MovieTitle.html), not the pretty-URL version of the page.