Hi Ivan,

My Redirects viewer package allows you to do that on a content item.

https://our.umbraco.com/packages/backoffice-extensions/redirects-viewer/

And here you can find a blogpost by Marc Goodson about redirects : http://tooorangey.co.uk/posts/301-redirection-in-umbraco-it-s-a-rum-do/

Dave

Hi Dave,

Thanks for this.

Does it work with the built-in functionality of Umbraco? adding entries to the existing umbracoRedirectUrl table?

Thanks

Hi Ivan,

It does...I build this package with this feature in mind. I often got questions from editors that they could not see the redirects configured for an item. And of course than they ask how to add and delete them.

Adding and deleting is configurable by the way based on user groups in the configuration of the datatype.

Dave

ok many thanks will give it a try and get back to you.

Hi Dave,

We've installed this package and it works fine with future URL modifications.

However, we have about 500 redirects created via the 301 URL Tracker plugin and we need to move them and populate the umbracoRedirectUrl table via code. We've followed this post:

https://our.umbraco.com/forum/using-umbraco-and-getting-started/82460-can-i-populate-umbracoredirecturl-manually

It looks like you call the ToSHA1() function to generate the hash: https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/blob/5397f2c53acbdeb0805e1fe39fda938f571d295a/src/Umbraco.Core/Persistence/Repositories/RedirectUrlRepository.cs#L108

For the ID, you can probably just create a new GUID with Guid.NewGuid().

FYI, to use the ToSHA1() extension method, you'll need to use the namespace Umbraco.Core: https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/blob/26a04ca7e91750a796c753f2f071cb1af8045cb1/src/Umbraco.Core/StringExtensions.cs#L739

The records seem to be added correctly into the umbracoRedirectUrl table, these appear on every page and in the dashboard.

But the redirects are not working.

Are we missing something?

See below the code:

    SqlDataReader tableUrlTracker = null;
    try
    {
        myIRedirectUrl mode = new myIRedirectUrl();


        SqlConnection DBConnToUMB = new SqlConnection();

        DBConnToUMB = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["umbracoDbDSN"].ConnectionString);

        DBConnToUMB.Open();



        StringBuilder insertScript = new StringBuilder();

        tableUrlTracker = new SqlCommand("SELECT * FROM icUrlTracker where is404 = 0", DBConnToUMB).ExecuteReader();
        if (tableUrlTracker.HasRows)
        {

            while (tableUrlTracker.Read())
            {
                string oldUrl ="1928/"+ tableUrlTracker["OldUrl"];
                DateTime createDateUtc =(System.DateTime)tableUrlTracker["Inserted"];

                string nodeUniqueId = "";
                int pageId=0;
                if (tableUrlTracker["RedirectNodeId"] != null && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(tableUrlTracker["RedirectNodeId"].ToString() ))
                {

                    int.TryParse(tableUrlTracker["RedirectNodeId"].ToString(), out pageId);

                    SqlDataReader tableUmbracoNode = new SqlCommand("SELECT top(1) * FROM umbracoNode  where id ="+ pageId.ToString(), DBConnToUMB).ExecuteReader();
                    if (tableUmbracoNode.HasRows)
                    {
                        while (tableUmbracoNode.Read())
                        {
                            nodeUniqueId = tableUmbracoNode["uniqueID"].ToString();
                            continue;
                        }
                    }
                    tableUmbracoNode.Close();

                }
                if (pageId== 0)
                {
                    continue;
                }

                string redirectUrl = "";
                try
                {
                    redirectUrl = new DynamicNode(pageId).Url;

                    if (nodeUniqueId == "" || redirectUrl == null)
                    {
                        continue;
                    }
                }
                catch
                {
                    continue;
                }

                string encodedUrl = redirectUrl.ToSHA1();
                string urlId = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
                insertScript.AppendLine("INSERT INTO [dbo].[umbracoRedirectUrl] ([id] ,[createDateUtc] ,[url] ,[contentKey] ,[urlHash]) VALUES('" + urlId + "','" + createDateUtc.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss") + "','" + oldUrl + "','" + nodeUniqueId + "','" + encodedUrl + "')").Append(Environment.NewLine);
                insertScript.Append(Environment.NewLine);
            }
        }

        insertScript.AppendLine();


    }
    catch(Exception e)
    {

        string s = e.Message;
    }
    finally
    {
        tableUrlTracker.Close();

    }

Any ideas why these redirects are not working?

Thanks

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