The first time you create a page in Concrete5, you give it a URL.

After that you can add as many URLs as you'd like for the same page.

You can then select any of the URLs to be the canonical URL. So that's the URL Concrete5 will use and that's the one that search engines will find.

There is one catch. You can delete any of the URLs you added except the first one. You can never delete the first URL.

So what happens is you create a new URL for the page and mark it as canonical. Your website will function with that URL and will put that URL in your sitemap and all. As far as your users and search engines will be concerned that will be the correct URL to that page.

If, however, anybody follows the old URL, that one will also still work and take them to the same page.

You can either consider that is not a problem OR you can have a redirect put in place so all the old URLs redirect to the new ones.

That second solution is what the vast majority of websites do when modifying existing pages URLs.

Hope that helps.

So in short, it's possible to make necessary changes to the URLs, only thing is that we can't permanently delete first one and has to rely on redirects to implement changes.

Can you please guide on the same problem in wider perspective? What if I wanted to make changes in a folder structure to modify the whole hierarchy of the website.

Please check the attached image for more details.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Rajesh.

Any comments pls.