Hi

We are about to change up the menu/navigation on our sites quite a bit. I know I am about to get myself into a lot of work but I was wondering what the community thought and if there are better ways that I am missing with the latest versions of DNN.

Right now if you have a menu like Training>Plans your url is something like Training/Plans.aspx

If we move plans under 'resources' like Training>Resources>Plans it will now end up being something like training/resources/plans.aspx

This will break a lot of existing links to the the old URL of course.

In know one way to handle this is create a new page and have the old page 'redirect' but we are talking about a lot of pages here and some of the custom modules on the page dont copy over well. So I would rather not go that route.

What are some other ways I can handle this.

Search and Replace in the DB?
URL rewriter module? Recommendations?

I wish I had something like the htaaccess file in apache/unix/wordpress where I can just do redirects on request.

I would appreciate any best practices other than the copy then redirect.

Thanks!

You can use a module like URL Master to do this for you.

Thanks Joseph. I was hoping I missed a magical feature in DNN 6 that does this...

So URL Master...that has your approval?

Doing it in DNN would mean, keeping the existing page names, take them all out of the menu, and set them to redirect to the new pages ... as you mentioned.

As for URLMaster, it's one of the all-time superb modules for DotNetNuke.