Comments on: Nitpicking Magento Custom URL Rewrite Management for 301 Redirects

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:06:03 +0000

THIS IS ONE SOLUTION:

Edit /app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model/Url.php

Find line 632 and change:
//if (null === $parentPath) {
//$parentPath = $this->getResource()->getCategoryParentPath($category);
//}
//elseif ($parentPath == ‘/’) {
$parentPath = ”;
//}

By: Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:38:12 +0000

Thank you so much for posting this! you’re right this is completely un-intuitive, the line “2. Use the path of the URL to be redirected for both “ID Path” and “Request Path” — the “Target Path” is the URL to redirect to.” should be made bold

Thanks

By: gavin

gavin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:00:27 +0000

Tom – From what you’re describing, it sounds like you’ve changed the System rewrite for your category from the default “No” redirect to a “Permanent (301)” redirect. The following is making that assumption, let me know if I’m wrong!

Magento treats the target path for a rewrite as the resource to display at the URL requested by the browser– when a redirect is specified, the target path becomes the literal “Location” in the server response header (moved permanently to:), and is subsequently displayed as such in the browser.

A permanent redirect in Magento’s URL Rewrite Management should be created as a Custom Rewrite (with “Redirect: Permanent (301)” selected) separate from/in addition to the default (unedited) System non-redirecting rewrite.

Here’s where it gets totally un-intuitive:
1. Ignore Magento’s system/internal identification paths.
2. Use the path of the URL to be redirected for both “ID Path” and “Request Path” — the “Target Path” is the URL to redirect to.

I’m interested to know what you’re shooting for in your canonicalization efforts — Is it just the problem you described here (a request for energy-star.html returns “catalog/category/view/id/47″)? Wrestling with Magento’s built in duplicate content engine (one product page on the root and a duplicate for every category and subcategory)?

I ask because I’ve only had to redirect pages that I’ve renamed — and I think I’ll check out Yoast’s “Canonical URLs for Magento” extension (adds the link rel=”canonical” tag) for the duplicate content issues.

By: Tom Harrison

Tom Harrison — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:45:27 +0000

Hi — I found this post as I was trying to sort out what appears to be a similar issue.

When I select Catalog Rewrite Management and edit one of the system entries, id path, request path and target path seem … backwards. And they are not editable for some reason (I am an admin), even if I try to make a custom rewrite.

The problem is the “request path” has the key name, e.g. “energy-star”, and the id path has one form (category/47) while the target path has another (catalog/category/view/id/47). I read this as “when a request comes in with the name energy-star send it to catalog/category/view/id/47. This is fine, but if I enable 301 redirects, Magento does a 301 redirect from the clean URL to the catalog/category/view/id/47 URL. Same with products.

I want the opposite: since there are several cases where Magento displays the non-canonical form of a product or category URL, I want Magento to 301 redirect to the canonical (“clean”) form. But this doesn’t seem to be possible.

Am I missing something?

Thanks!

Tom