Hi,
I'm using Joomla 1.5.22 with SEF enabled and K2 Extension for content, I have almost 300 articles that have been indexed by Google and other search engine

Now
I want to change menu arrangement and I want to bring out some sub categories out of the main categories and make them easy to find and emphasis them.

I've studied alot about apache and tried to do this by Apache's mod_redirect and .htaccess and write some redirect rules like

RewriteRule ^articles/video-audio/digital-camera/item/([0-9]+)-(.*)$ www.zoomit.ir/home/av/digital-camera/item/$1-$2 [R=301,L]

but does not work

I Want to know is it possible to do this sort of jobs with the ReDJ Extension or not If Yes How? I've read all of the documents of ReDJ but I did not get anything useful

Your kind advice will be highly appreciated.
Masoud,

HI,
ReDJ was created just for this. If you send me a table with OLD -> NEW URLs, I could help you with settings. Use info(at)sistemistica.it of you prefer.

Best regards,
Luigi

Luigi, Thank you so much for your interesting response.

I just want to inform you that I have many articles in each menu and I do not want to redirect one by one.

for example
I want to bring out table out of the hardware-news category:
www.zoomit.ir/articles/hardware-news/tablet/

so URLs like this:
www.zoomit.ir/articles/hardware-news/tablet/item/400-galaxy_tab_gets_hacked_finally_runs_gingerbread

should be redirect to:
www.zoomit.ir/articles/tablet/item/400-galaxy_tab_gets_hacked_finally_runs_gingerbread

as you know the 400 is the id and the text after that is allies of SEF

Thank you so much for pursuing.

It's easy with macros.



It should work.

Best regards,
Luigi

awesome!

Work Perfectly, I do not how should I Thank you

well done.

This solution works wonderfully... except.

Every page under the root folder works great, but the root folder itself does not.

I redirected /about-us/ to /about/ using the above method

"thescriptlab.com/about-us/bios" redirects wonderfully, but "thescriptlab.com/about-us/" does not.

For the root folder you could use the dollar ($) at the end of the "From URL" to specify that "ends with". As example:



This item matchs only with www.yoursite.com/about-us/, while DOESN'T match with www.yoursite.com/about-us/contact.html.

Anyway, if you get trouble, send me the items you configured, and I will fix them for you.

Best regards,
Luigi

I just discovered that if I remove the trailing "/" in all forms of the address, it works like a dream.

so:

in: /about-us
out: {scheme}://{siteurl}/about{pathltrim /about-us}

Thanks so much, awesome product.

Yes,
and if you want the perfection, just add the parameters (if there) so you preserve them:

in: /about-us
out: {scheme}://{siteurl}/about{pathltrim /about-us}{queryfull}

Beste regards,
Luigi