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Thread: Redirect Deleted Product Page to Category

  1. 02-01-2011, 10:40 AM #1
    Tom Cox is offline Senior Member
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    We want to delete a few product pages for discontinued products but two of them have back links to them. Is it possible to use something like a 301 redirect to direct these deleted product pages to their previous category page?

    If this is possible, where do we put the redirect code and what does it look like?
  2. 02-02-2011, 03:08 AM #2
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    In the <urlrewrites> section of the web.config file you could have something like:
    Code:
    <rule url="/p-2282-([\w-]*)\.aspx(?:\?(.*))?" rewrite="/showcategory.aspx?CategoryID=833" />
    where p-2282 is your productid and 833 is your categoryid
    http://www.esedirect.co.uk
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    Using MS 9.2.0.0 with the following customisations:

    Lightbox/Fancybox enlarged images;
    Auto-suggest searchbox;
    Extra product information shown only to our IP Address (such as supplier info, costs, etc.);
    Failed transactions emailed via trigger;
    Custom app to show basket contents when customer online;
    Orders pushed through to accounting systems.

    All the above without source!
  3. 02-02-2011, 08:33 PM #3
    Tom Cox is offline Senior Member
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    Thank you. That sounds perfect. I'll give it a try and I'm pretty sure that will work.