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Reduce 404s from old bookmarked URLs
I have no 404 problems within my site. All the forum searching I did yielded different dicussions from what I’m about to post, but if I missed a FAQ or something, sorry in advance!
Okay. I once used permanent links of the “section/id” flavor long ago. I now use “section/title” and have been doing this since, I don’t know, gamma release days. But I have a small number of pages that were (and are) popular and get linked to many times a month with the old links. These sad visitors get 404 errors. If they go to my home page and search for what they want, they’ll find it, but I want a way for the old permanent links and the new permanent links to work at the same time. Suggestions? This can be site-wide, or just the few pages that get the most 404 errors.
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#2 2006-02-04 12:49:08
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Re: Reduce 404s from old bookmarked URLs
I’m using sgb_url_handler for that. All requests for /section/id/title land on the /section/title page.
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Re: Reduce 404s from old bookmarked URLs
I installed sgb_url_handler with sgb_error_documents edited into it according to the instructions, and voilà! No further work seems to be required. It can’t be that easy, can it? Well, if it’s not and I have troubles, there’s plenty of documentation to dig into.
Thanks, doggiez.
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