Redirector: Fix for 2.3?

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Ben Morrison Reply #1, 12 years, 2 months ago

Has anyone gotten Redirector to function properly under modx 2.3? I have a site that has had MANY evolutions over the years but many important links of the wrong URLs exit on other sites. I can't upgrade till I have an alternative and because of the need for URL "patterns" I'm pretty sure SEO Tab won't work as a solution (even though I love it).
Ben Morrison
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chris.dempsey78 Reply #2, 12 years, 1 month ago
I had the same issue recently with a site served by IIS. Rather than try to fix the issue Redirector I took the easy way out and used the IIS URL Rewrite Module. In order to avoid cluttering the web.config file I moved them to an external file. The setup is:

web.config
```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>

		<rewrite>
            <rewriteMaps configSource="rewritemaps.config" />
        </rewrite>

	</system.webServer>
</configuration>
```
rewritemaps.config
```
<rewriteMaps>
    <rewriteMap name="Redirects">
        <add key="/oldpage.html" value="/new/page.html" />
    </rewriteMap>
</rewriteMaps>
```
It's not as user friendly as Redirector but it does cut out the need for the PHP Engine so it's faster.

I believe the .htaccess equivalent if you use Apache is something like:
```
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewriterule ^old/page.php(.*)$ http://newdomain.com/new/page.php$1 [r=301,nc]
```