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Alternative to 301 Redirect?
Golfnut
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I know many have asked for support of a 301 Redirect; however, for some reason it doesn't appear to have the priority to have been done. I have a suggestion that might be easier to implement and to provide a method that could help.
After we move our website to be hosted with SmugMug, all our links that end with .htm or .html are no longer valid and SmugMug puts out the "These aren't the photos you're looking for." message. How about if SmugMug implements a change that simply ignores ANY extension on the url and then if we have an equivalent url in the new SmugMug (without the extension), it will display our equivalent new url in SmugMug.
?? Is this feasible ??
Charles
After we move our website to be hosted with SmugMug, all our links that end with .htm or .html are no longer valid and SmugMug puts out the "These aren't the photos you're looking for." message. How about if SmugMug implements a change that simply ignores ANY extension on the url and then if we have an equivalent url in the new SmugMug (without the extension), it will display our equivalent new url in SmugMug.
?? Is this feasible ??
Charles
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I honestly don't know if that's something we can do. The best place for you to ask would be the feature request forum. That's really the best place to post things like that: http://feedback.smugmug.com/forums/17723-smugmug Just type 301 redirect in the window there, and you can see that there are a few requests related to those, already. You can vote for and comment on one that's there already.
I hope that helps!
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When I try to create a page and add the 404 "http://arrowphotos.com/404" or "http://arrowphotos.smugmug.com/404" I get a red error message: "That Custom URL already exists"
Maybe SmugMug has reserved it for themselves?
Thanks,
Charles
Go to http://<your url>/badpage (using a name that doesn't exist on your site). The 404 page will come up. Customize it.
See http://news.smugmug.com/2013/07/31/smug-tip-customize-your-404-search-page-and-more/.
--- Denise
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Denise,
I have now done what you said and it works whenever the last part of the url is any invalid word. However, if the last part of the url is an extension, like .htm (which is what Google returns in their search results for my old site) then it goes to the SmugMug "These aren't the photos you are looking for." page. Any ideas for that situation?
Thanks,
Charles
I assume your old site wasn't a smugmug site, that you had .htm extensions on the previous site, and that you are using the same URL. Unfortunately I don't believe there is any way to define an extension as going to your smugmug site.
--- Denise
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
Indeed, this is my first SmugMug site and it uses the same URL. Oh well.
-Charles
Google should automatically remove the no longer valid results. To speed up the process, you could try requesting a removal of specific links. Check Google's webmaster support pages for details.
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