Hello,

I've switched from my old html website to a new 2.5 joomla website and hoped to use ReDJ for all the permanent redirects.
So far I've tried different forms for the From URL like absolute urls:
www.garnihotelfriedheim.com/menu/Freizeit.htm

or relative urls like:

/menu/Wandern.htm


and for the To URL absolute urls like:

www.garnihotelfriedheim.com/index.php/de/pension-de/sport-freizeit-de

or relative urls like:

/index.php/de/pension-de/wandern-kultur-de


I always get a 404 error and after several attempts I didnt have any success.
Also I cant seem to get the 404 error page to work even when I put CUSTOM PAGE to YES and select a Page in the Plugin. I also added ErrorDocument 404 / to the end of my .htaccess.

My main problem right now is the 301 redirect, since the page was indexed really well on google and i dont want to loose that position after the migration.

Thanks and sincere greetings

Simon

Thank you, i hadn't figured out that .htaccess was not active yet and now the redirect works great. the 404 doesnt work yet even thou i've added the ErrorDocument 404 /. But its no problem since the site is quite small and ive redirected every old link.

Actually i've used relative links for FROM and TO URLS and it worked fine like this:

/menu/Wandern.htm

to

/de/pension-de/wandern-kultur-de

Thanks again and best wishes

Simon

Hi Simon, this is right:

/menu/Wandern.htm

But this is better:

^/menu/Wandern\.htm$

Cause the second one matches only one URL that start with (^) /menu and end with ($) htm.

Remember that "From URL" is a regular expression, so you can use special chars to match many URLs with a single rule.

Kind regards,
Luigi

Thanks for the help! Sincerly

Simon