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#2954 – Change many URLs - how?

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Friday, 11 November 2016 12:45 UTC

wdburgdorf

Hi,

I have many URLs like this in one language (using SEO Glossary):
22-glossar/xyz (where "22" is the glossary category)

They should look like this:
glossar/xyz

Then, in another language (the default), they look like this:
xyz

But should look like this:
glossary/xyz

I think I know how to change those links manually, entry by entry in the URL manager, but that would take ages. Is there a simple way to do it? (I would not mind doing it directly in the DB, but don't know how to do it correctly there.)

Thanks!

Friday, 11 November 2016 15:40 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

1 - The URLs are built using the SEO Glossary component router.php file. URLs built can vary based on settings under the "By components" tab of sh404SEF configuration, so I think the first thing to try is to:

- set SEO Glossary to "Use default handler" and "Use router.php with menu item" on that configuration tab
- Purge URLs
- See if the URLs are better now

2 - There is no way to modify URLs other than manually
3 - Doing it in the database is doable I think. You first need to disable the "URL disk cache" feature of sh404SEF (if not already disabled), to avoid the cache cause issues.

Then modify the URLs in the #_sh404sef_urls table. Only modify the oldurl field and the dateadd field.
The dateadd is required so that those URLs are marked as "Custom", meaning they won't be deleted upon Purge.
Your site needs to be offline when you do that, so that new URLs are not created while you are working on the database.

Rgds

Saturday, 26 November 2016 05:34 UTC

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