Missing / Changed / URLs / Links

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Yeah this is a very big issue because the site will drop in google rankings when the indexed links are broken. What I would do is write a bit of code to hook into 404 errors and look up and redirect the old to the new URI. my 2p..

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14 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

I'd love to pay someone to do this, but can find nobody capable. 

It would all depend on what backend you are using but generally I'd hook the 404 exception and then pass the URI into a 1:1 database that you populate with old:new URIs. If found, do a redirect to new URI, if not then return the 404.

 

 

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4 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

The problem is mapping the old to the new URI. 

 

Right now I have to manually create 301 redirects by finding the old URI, searching for the content on the new site to find the new URI, then enter it into the db. Impossible with 90,000 URIs. 

 

 

Here's an example:

 

Old URI - http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f8-general-forum/computer-audiophile-site-upgrade-coming-march-18-2017-a-31798/

New URI - https://www.computeraudiophile.com/forums/topic/31040-ca-site-upgrade-coming-march-18-2017/

 

 

 

 

You could modify the software that you used to re-create the site to, instead of re-creating  a page, instead save the URI into the db... it depends on how you recreated the site, but the logic used to recreate the site is the logic that "knows" what the old to new URI mapping is.