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  • migrating and maintaining URLs

    Posted 15 years 10 months ago
    • I'm hoping someone can answer a few questions for me. I've just migrated a website from 1.015 to 1.5. On the original 1.0x site I didn't have any search engine friendly components installed, as you can see by this URL. After migration, I enabled search engine friendly URLs and use Apache mod_rewrite in globel configuration. I enabled the back link plug in and to my astonishment, it seems to work. However, the URLs showing on the search engine's all like this URL www.tetraplegicliving.com/content/view/18/32/ , If you click on one, it goes straight to the website and the old URLs are sharing in the address bar. But if you click on the link to that page, the URL changes to search engine friendly URLs. Just wondered if this is normal. I'm quite pleased because it means that people can still get to my website via the search engines. I'm just wondering if the old URLs will eventually disappear and be replaced by the new ones on the search engines. I'm sure someone can help

      The link below is what was on the old 1.0x Joomla platform. If you click on it, it will take you to my new 1.5 website. Then if you click on a menu item "Torbay" you'll see that the URL changes but the page stays the same.


      www.tetraplegicliving.com/content/view/95/185/
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  • Re: migrating and maintaining URLs

    Posted 15 years 10 months ago
    • Ahhh..I bet I know...you might have to change the path in the configuration.php file. If you do not know the path you can create a NEW .php file called 'findpath.php' Place this code in it:

      <?php
      $path = getcwd();
      echo "Your Absolute Path is: ";
      echo $path;
      ?>

      Save the file to your root. Then run the command: www.yourwebsitename.com/findpath.php

      It will show you the exact path you need to replace...it is usually something weird generated by your host...like this: /home/content/w/a/d/whatever/html/

      The configuration.php file is located in the root...but I am sure you already know that.

      Summation:
      Make findpath.php. upload it.
      Run the command to get exact path.
      Change it in the configuration.php file.
      Save the file...

      This will keep the site from pathing to the old location.

      Hope this helps.

      Eric
    #352014

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