Redirection of a link

Lille UlvenLille Ulven Registered Users Posts: 567 Major grins
edited May 29, 2015 in SmugMug Support
Hi.

I would like to slightly change the setup of my page when it comes to the organization of my folders and galleries that contain my public photos.
As of now you would find the following structure in my organizer:
www.lilleulven.com
Black and White
Landscapes
Macro
Animals
Other
Plants
Travel
Europe
New Zealand
USA

This of course looks kind of messy once you go into the Organizer on my site...
What I would like to do is to have one folder named Photos that would contain all public folders that then contain the public galleries.
So the structure should afterwards look like this:
www.lilleulven.com
Photos
Black and White
Landscapes
Macro
Animals
Other
Plants
Travel
Europe
New Zealand
USA

But that would also change my links from say www.lilleulven.com/Travel/NewZealand/Southisland/photo.jpg
to www.lilleulven.com/Photos/Travel/NewZealand/Southisland/photo.jpg.
What I need to know before I start doing this is: if I have used the "get a link" tool to link to one of my photos in a forum or from a blog, would the old links get re-directed to the new ones?
(From what I can see from my links at another forum it looks like it. But I would like to know for sure before implementing this change, so that I can plan for where else I have to change links before starting the work.)

Thanks for your help in advance.

Lille Ulven
https://www.lilleulven.smugmug.com - The Photos of my travels

Comments

  • herojosieherojosie Registered Users Posts: 66 Big grins
    edited May 4, 2015
    Hi Lille,

    Yes, changing the organization structure by moving galleries and folders around would indeed break any links you've previously shared using the old organizational structure. It would not redirect automatically so you would have to update those links to make sure they don't break after reorganizing.

    If you have more questions about that though, just let us know!
    Thanks,
    Josie
    SmugMug Support Hero
  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,013 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2015
    I looked back thru my old blog postings before NewSmug and everything redirects. All gallery links and photos.

    Gallery link
    http://www.photosbyat.com/Birds/Birding-2007-December/2007-12-December-at-the-Feeder/3928364_6w5MMn
    As long as the gallery ID and key are at the end this works. Added a bogus xxxx
    http://www.photosbyat.com/xxxx/3928364_6w5MMn

    NewSmug photo link
    http://www.photosbyat.com/Birds/2007-Birding/Birding-2007-December/2007-12-December-at-the-Feeder/i-Stkb7hT/1/Th/IMG_3174-2eR-Th.jpg
    This OldSmug photo link for that photo still works even with the bogus xxxxx
    http://www.photosbyat.com/xxxxx/228049070_qiNY4-Th.jpg

    So organization structure means nothing as long as the ID and key are in the link.
    Al - Just a volunteer here having fun
    My Website index | My Blog
  • herojosieherojosie Registered Users Posts: 66 Big grins
    edited May 4, 2015
    Thanks for the correction Allen. Yes, I did also test it with the ID and key and that seemed to do the redirect just fine. Thanks again!
    Thanks,
    Josie
    SmugMug Support Hero
  • Lille UlvenLille Ulven Registered Users Posts: 567 Major grins
    edited May 7, 2015
    Thanks Allen and herojosie, that's good news for me then, as it might mean a lot less work than what I anticipated in between... I like that one! :D

    Lille Ulven
    https://www.lilleulven.smugmug.com - The Photos of my travels
  • gschlactgschlact Registered Users Posts: 56 Big grins
    edited May 29, 2015
    Lille,
    I hope you don't mind me asking, but how or what site did you use to build your blog? If external site, did you need to manually retreat all the menu entries on top of he blog to emulate the Smugmug menus?
    -gschlact
    http://schlacter.smugmug.com
  • denisegoldbergdenisegoldberg Administrators Posts: 14,383 moderator
    edited May 29, 2015
    gschlact wrote: »
    Lille,
    I hope you don't mind me asking, but how or what site did you use to build your blog? If external site, did you need to manually retreat all the menu entries on top of he blog to emulate the Smugmug menus?
    I'm sure Lille will answer, but in the meantime... it looks like the blog entries are in Blogger.

    I've also used blogger (link to blog and smug site are below), and the menu items on my blog do point to my smug site. I needed to create those entries in blogger as well as in smug.

    --- Denise
    https://www.denisegoldberg.com ... https://denise.smugmug.com

    Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
  • Lille UlvenLille Ulven Registered Users Posts: 567 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2015
    gschlact, of course I don't mind you asking - actually you just reminded me to double check my blog links as I have changed my smug mug links a couple of weeks ago... and it turned out I had forgotten to transfer the changes to my blog...
    I do use an external blog service - more precisely google's blogger. And yes I did emulate the smug mug menu by getting all those links manually and then used HTML to code the menu.
    <!-- start navmenu -->
<ul id='nav'>
    <li><a href='http://www.lilleulven.com/'>HOME</a></li>
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            <li><a href='http://http://www.lilleulven.com/Photos/Blackandwhite/'>Black and White</a>
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                </ul>
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                    <li><a href='http://www.lilleulven.com/Photos/Macro/Other/'>Other</a></li>
                    <li><a href='http://www.lilleulven.com/Photos/Macro/Plants/'>Plants</a></li>
                </ul>
            </li>
            <li><a href='http://www.lilleulven.com/Photos/Travel/'>Travel</a>
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                   <li><a href='http://www.lilleulven.com/Photos/Travel/Europe/'>Europe</a>
                        <ul>
                            <li><a href='http://www.lilleulven.com/Photos/Travel/Europe/Denmark/'>Denmark</a></li>
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