Hi Ben

What kind of redirect do you want the Urls to make ?

a) 301 permanent redirect b) 302 temporary redirect

or c) is it just ok if that the foo and bar urls returns the appropriate page from Umbraco ?

This info would dictate what is the best approach.

So for example in the scenario of c) you can use a special 'hidden feature' of Umbraco called UrlAlias - if you create a textbox on your Umbraco document type and name it's alias specifically:

umbracoUrlAlias

then you can specify here a comma delimited list of alternative urls the page should also be loaded under.

https://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/umbraco-best-practices/umbracourlalias/

But this isn't a redirect, the request code will be 200, this might upset you if you are SEO aware.

If you create a checkbox on your document types called 'umbracoNaviHide' then you can exclude your redirect pages from navigation.

https://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/umbraco-best-practices/umbraconavihide/

so with b)

if you create a 'Redirect Page' document type add a textbox called umbracoRedirect or a content picker called umbracoInternalRedirectId, then if either of these properties are filled in, Umbraco will create a temporary 302 redirect from the url of your Redirect Page to your target content.

but really you probably want a 301 redirect.

Here we have nothing 'out of the box' (except in 7.5 the automatic tracking and creating of 301 redirects when pages are moved or renamed, but at this moment we can't easily manually create redirects here)

There are plenty of packages that would deliver this functionality for you:

https://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/301-url-tracker/

Alternatively, simplistically if on your Redirect Page you create a textbox called 'umbracoExternalRedirect' and then a 'RedirectPage' template and in the template you put:

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
    @{
    Layout = null;
    }
@if (Model.Content.HasProperty("umbracoExternalRedirect") && Model.Content.HasValue("umbracoExternalRedirect")) {
        var redirectUrl = Model.Content.GetPropertyValue<string>("umbracoExternalRedirect");
        Response.RedirectPermanent(redirectUrl);
}

Publishing this page will create a 301 redirect for the url of your Redirect Page to your target Url.

If you have lots of redirects, you might not want to create them in the root of your site, so to aid management of these simple redirects, create a RedirectFolder document type as a list view, and create your Redirect Pages under here.... but my urls will then be /Redirects/NameOfRedirect and I want them to be /foo - with this approach to achieve that you would use the first trick of using umbracoUrlAlias, to enable your redirect page at /redirect/foo to actually be requested as /foo, and then the template would 301 redirect to what was filled into your umbracoExternalRedirect page.

regards

Marc

Thank you, that was very helpful!

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