URL rewriting and redirect - problem

[DirtyMusic]

I have for a long time use a URL like this index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=47&cntnt01returnid=75 I have reinstalled CMS and made a new structure with new and the URL is now /news/74/47/title

When someone tries to visist the first URL it only show a white page. How can I get the visitors that use old URLs to the new one? Or at least make them visist my news-page?

[irish]

Did you add this to your .htaccess file?

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Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
 
# 301 Redirect all requests that don't contain a dot or trailing slash to
# include a trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.
RewriteRule ^(.*) %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]
 
# Rewrites urls in the form of /parent/child/
# but only rewrites if the requested URL is not a file or directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA]

[DirtyMusic]

Yes, I have added the .htaccess and edit the config.php

[Rolf]

Hi DirtyMusic,

config.php

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#If you're using the internal pretty url mechanism or mod_rewrite, would you like to
#show urls in their hierarchy?  (ex. http://www.mysite.com/parent/parent/childpage)
$config['use_hierarchy'] = false;

false -> index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=47&cntnt01returnid=75
true -> /news/74/47/title

But there have been some changes here, don't know for sure if this option is still there in the latest versions.

Regards, Rolf

[DirtyMusic]

I think I have to ask the question again. I have followed the tutorial on how to change the config.php and how to make the .htaccess and it's working perfect.

I want visitors who use the old URL (index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=47&cntnt01returnid=75) to go to the new URL (/news/74/47/title). But now they just sees a white page. How to solve this?

[Pierre M.]

Hello,

there are two topics here :
1-exposing pretty URLs to the web (for pages, for news...),
2-migrating the web from an old URL scheme to a new one.

You have found the CMSms specific tutorial for topic1. You have pretty page URL and news URL ? Cool.

Topic2 is not CMSms specific. It is about the webserver redirecting (301) the old URLs to the new ones.

Yes, a CMSms tip could help to provide the old-to-new rewrite mapping. May be a unique rewrite rule can do it, if 74==75.

Pierre M.