301 Redirects

[toolsup]

Where are the 301 redirects modified?

[mikek]

You can add the 301 code directly on each page:


<script runat="server">
private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently";
Response.AddHeader("Location", "http://www.domain.com");
}
</script>

[toolsup]

I don't think that would work. These are dynamic
We may be moving from another ecom software and obviously want to bring our url's with us.

[mazhar]

AbleCommerce 7.0.6 supports 301 redirects feature. You can add 301 redirects from admin side. Secondly we provided support of totally custom URL in version 7.0.6. This feature allows you to set product, category and web page URL yourself. You can preserve your old URLs either with custom URLs or 301 redirects feature.

[toolsup]

That sounds great.
Where in the admin side do you specify that?
I am running the online demo right now and I looked for it, but couldn't find it.
Where would I find it?

[mazhar]

If you go to Configuremenu item in top horizontal navigation you will see SEO option in there. It contains things related to both features I told.

[toolsup]

It's not listed under config in the demo that I am running.

[mazhar]

It could be because hosted trial is configured on previous version of AbleCommerce. You can download latest ablecommerce package and can run it on your local computer in trial mode for testing.

[toolsup]

Seems like you would want the lastest version as a trial.
Then the trail user could see the latest and greatest.

[toolsup]

Alright, I am now running a current version of the demo store online.
I don't think the 301 redirects would be practical because we have 11,000-12,000 products that we would be moving.

It I put our current URL in the "custom url field" when the product is put in would that work?

[mazhar]

Yeah it will work. You can set any custom URL you want. You may need to enable custom extensions support depending upon your old page extension is other then *.aspx. You will find enable custom extensions setting under Configure -> SEO -> Settings page. BTW have a look at Dynamic Redirects option under SEO section. This allows you to define regular expressions to map URLs.

[toolsup]

Great, I think the custom url will do the trick.