setting up 301 redirects in nopcommerce

Hi, hope someone can help me out here.


I need to set up some redirects for a nop 2.8 website - the redirects are from a php website that uses idless urls - some of which refer to locations in folders that don't exist in the nopcommerce website

eg

http://thesite.com/attachments/delivery/
http://thesite.com/attachments/location/
http://thesite.com/attachments/item1


or

http://thesite.com/oldpage/



I need to add the following to web.config

<rewrite>
  <rules>
    <rule name="deliverypage">
      <match url="http://thesite.com/attachments/delivery/" />
        <action type="Redirect" redirectType="Permanent" url="http://thesite.com/DeliveryInfo" />
    </rule>
  </rules>
</rewrite>


but I can't get this to work even though rewrite module is enabled on the server.

Don't know where I'm going wrong ???


any help out there ?

thanks in advance.

hi, anyone offer a suggestion ?

have sent you a pm with some basic instructions for the redirect plugin - thanks for getting in touch.

Thanks Marc - yep, my mistake was including the domain name - the code should be :


<rewrite>
  <rules>
    <rule name="deliverypage">
      <match url="attachments/delivery/" />
        <action type="Redirect" redirectType="Permanent" url="http://thesite.com/deliveryinfo" />
    </rule>
  </rules>
</rewrite>

inside the   <system.webServer>  tags of web.config

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notes :


1) <match url="
     should not start with a leading slash eg       <match url="/attachments/delivery/" />

2) use lowercase letters - just in case :)

3) urlrewrite module needs to be installed on the server - just ask your hosting supplier

4) <rule name="    must be different for each rule otherwise it will crash the application on startup

Marc has created the extension : https://www.nopcommerce.com/p/1044/301-page-redirect.aspx

this is well worth looking into if you are migrating from a different application - it's good to keep your seo page rankings from that site by pointing the old url to the equivalent page on your new site.