Best approach for these redirects

Question

Working on a Wordpress migration at the moment, and all the post URLs are http://sitename.com/post-url, and I need to redirect them to their new home at http://sitename.com/article/entry-url. It's difficult because there obviously isn't a catch-all URL segment I can use because all posts use first segment. I could go the .htaccess route but there are >2k posts so that would be monstrous. There's a good Redirect Manager plugin where you can set a catch all template and then handle redirect in there, but I'd have to separately write a bunch of Route exceptions for other pages on the site. Anyone think of a good approach?

Answer 1

You can use Yii2 routing

    Event::on(
        UrlManager::class,
        UrlManager::EVENT_REGISTER_SITE_URL_RULES,
        function(RegisterUrlRulesEvent $event) {

        $event->rules[] = [
            'pattern' => '/<route:\S+>',
            'route'   => 'controller/to/redirect'
        ];
    }
);

And in your Controller

public function actionRedirect($route){
    if($entry = Entry::find()->oldUrl($route)->one()){ //<- insert your criteria to mach old with new URLs
        return $this->redirect($entry->getUrl());
    }
}

Answer 2

The redirect manager is probably your better bet. I like Retour - https://github.com/nystudio107/retour

Retour makes a list of all the urls that get 404 errors (and how many times each gets hit). Then you can click through and say URL A => URL B.

I recently moved a WP site to craft. I exported a sitemap from wordpress, and then clicked through all the pages so they'd show up in the list. Had a spreadsheet of new URLs on another window... And then went to town updating.

Doing a catch-all for redirects, and then writing exceptions to that seems like trouble.

Answer 3

Someone else suggested I used the existing 404 template, and do a lookup/redirect. Not tried it yet but I think this should do the trick:

{% set path = craft.app.request.segments|first %}
{% set article = craft.entries.section('articles').slug(path).one() %}
{% if article %}
    {% redirect article.url 301 %}
{% else %}
    Page Not Found
{% endif %}