Aliases for Categories
Ferguson
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I think I know the answer to this, but ever hopeful....
I have my set up with categories, and the friendly URL's then look something like
http://captivephotons.com/Events/Gallery
Where "Events" is the category, and "Gallery" is the Nickname of the gallery. Works fine, no issues (well... not sure why it keeps sticking "www." in front, but that's OK).
But I want to rearrange, I'd like to split Events into different categories (e.g. Sports, Music, etc). That's all very easy to do, but scattered hither and yon on the web with URL's with the old name.
Is there any way to register these old names in some form as an alias of the new?
Can't do it with CNAME of course, as that only affects the FQDN portion.
I thought about leaving the old category there and somehow building an HTML page that linked to the new one, but besides being a bit painful, that won't work for image references as it would have to do a redirect.
Here's the only way I've found so far that might work, though in testing it seemed a bit flakey.
Let's say I had an image that was at Site/Events/X and another at Site/Events/Y.
I can create new categories:
Site/Sports
Site/Music
Then I go to each in turn, and create a new gallery
/Site/Sports/X
Site/Music/Y
And each of those I make "Smart" and tell it to copy all the images from the old gallery. In a very brief check it seemed to work. It's quite tedious.
I'm also unclear as to whether these are virtual or real copies -- while I don't pay for space, will this double up the space used? I hate to be a bad tenant.
Today it's working. I tried it once before, and ended up with a gallery with images but no thumbnails (just blank spots). I deleted that gallery (which drew from a friend's) and did another for one of mine and it SEEMED to work. Today.
I have my set up with categories, and the friendly URL's then look something like
http://captivephotons.com/Events/Gallery
Where "Events" is the category, and "Gallery" is the Nickname of the gallery. Works fine, no issues (well... not sure why it keeps sticking "www." in front, but that's OK).
But I want to rearrange, I'd like to split Events into different categories (e.g. Sports, Music, etc). That's all very easy to do, but scattered hither and yon on the web with URL's with the old name.
Is there any way to register these old names in some form as an alias of the new?
Can't do it with CNAME of course, as that only affects the FQDN portion.
I thought about leaving the old category there and somehow building an HTML page that linked to the new one, but besides being a bit painful, that won't work for image references as it would have to do a redirect.
Here's the only way I've found so far that might work, though in testing it seemed a bit flakey.
Let's say I had an image that was at Site/Events/X and another at Site/Events/Y.
I can create new categories:
Site/Sports
Site/Music
Then I go to each in turn, and create a new gallery
/Site/Sports/X
Site/Music/Y
And each of those I make "Smart" and tell it to copy all the images from the old gallery. In a very brief check it seemed to work. It's quite tedious.
I'm also unclear as to whether these are virtual or real copies -- while I don't pay for space, will this double up the space used? I hate to be a bad tenant.
Today it's working. I tried it once before, and ended up with a gallery with images but no thumbnails (just blank spots). I deleted that gallery (which drew from a friend's) and did another for one of mine and it SEEMED to work. Today.
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If you were to use the full link like this:
http://www.captivephotons.com/Events/Sound-Of-Jazz-And-Blues-2013/28595484_XCLrsJ
it would still work even if you assigned the category to another category or changed the nicename.
You could use the smart gallery option, yes. That would simply create virtual copies. For more details on smart galleries, check out this page.
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Could you elaborate a bit, or point me to the right place?
I'm not concerned about gallery links per se but links to the JPG's.
For example, what I would normally use is this kind of link (corrupted to keep it from turning into a URL here):
http:// <web>/Events/FGCUSandVolleyball032213/i-5GC3cGm/0/X2/20130322_DSC_4951-X2.jpg
Are you saying that the presence of the /I-5GC3cGm in there is enough to keep this working? Because that means I have no problem. I've been just assuming if I changed the portion after the FQDN that it created a broken link, I've never actually tried it.
I have given some people direct links just to the gallery, so those would stop working, but I'm not too worried about those in comparison to the links to JPG's posted in forums over time.
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