Use Joomla redirect component to fix broken URLs

Question

Can anyone help with using J3 redirect component to fix this kind of broken links:

https://www.portal-gestao.com/whatever/whatever/9999-title-of-the-page

To:

https://www.portal-gestao.com/item/9999-title-of-the-page

And this:

http://www.portal-gestao.com/whatever/whatever/itemlist/tag/name-of-the-tag.html

To:

https://www.portal-gestao.com/item/tag/gurus.html

And this:

http://www.portal-gestao.com/whatever/whatever/itemlist/user/9999-name-of-author.html

To: http://www.portal-gestao.com/item/author/3707-name-of-author.html

Thank you so much for helping!

Answer 1

With the below .htaccess rule you can redirect all pages from a url with the pattern of:

https://www.portal-gestao.com/whatever/whatever/9999-title-of-the-page

to a new url of :

https://www.portal-gestao.com/item/9999-title-of-the-page

htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.portal-gestao.com
RewriteRule ^.*/.*/(.*)$ https://www.portal-gestao.com/item/$1 [L,R=301]

But I am not very sure that this is exactly what you want, as something like this will affect all urls of the above pattern (2 dir level deep urls), unless if all your new urls are now like this.

Maybe it would be better to create this same rule, but by specifying exactly the "whatever" names of the old structure, so the url rewriting will affect only those old paths.

e.g.:

RewriteRule ^whatever1/whatever2/(.*)$ https://www.portal-gestao.com/item/$1 

Of course, as @Nehal pointed out, you could consider a SEF extension like SH404SEF, JOOMSEF etc, that will help you deal with your 404 pages (broken links). Most of them provide settings in order to configure how the urls of your website should be built.

Answer 2

What you could do is use Joomla's Redirect Manager to redirect the old URL to the new one.

In the Joomla backend, go to:

Components >> Redirect >> New

In the Source URL field, enter the old URL and in the Destination URL field, enter the new URL

Answer 3

You can use JOOMSEF component, which is for SEO purpose and more of this extension is free.

Also in that component you have option to remove category and menu names from url and also you can customize the url according to you.