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Hi all,
I have some pages calling news module with instruction like: As result of this, URLs of news detail page are something like: I want to get rid of last URL part and have nice URLs like: To accomplish this, I have to remove "detailtemplate=..." instruction and create default template but what about SEO and soft 404 errors? Pages are already indexed but they are duplicated according to search engine because of same content.
One option is to edit .htaccess and create a 301 redirect but not all webmasters can access to it.

So here my CMSMS solution:

1. Clone actual news detail template with a new name and make it default template.
2. Create a new UDT named "moved301" with this code

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   $url = "http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
   $path = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH);
   $pathComponents = explode("/", trim($path, "/"));
   $newurl = 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']. '/'. $pathComponents[0] .'/'.$pathComponents[1] .'/'.$pathComponents[2] .'/'.$pathComponents[3] .'.htm';
   header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
   header("Location: $newurl");

3. Edit old template and remove all content (but don't delete template) replacing with {moved301}
4. Done!

Search engine trying to access detail template using old URL will be redirected with a 301 status code to new (short) URL.

Hope it helps
Regards
blast