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Great component but I wish that it would allow authors to enter a URL for redirection during article creation. the reason for this is that I use a news thumbnails module that I would like to link the articles in it to a different section of the site when people click on them. I can do that with ReDJ but my authors cant because they don't have admin rights.

This is so great! Exactly what i needed for my migration of my old page to jommla for at least 32 adresses.

Very nice work! 5 Stars!

Suggestions:
- quicker insertion of items, maybe with staying in the form?
- real great would be a spider to detect all links of an existing page.. but this maybe too much :)
- if no spider, at least a link importer would be nice!

Great extension! does exactly what it states! I had revamped my web site and some page titles were changed (including a main link). This gem of an extension quickly sorted it out.
Manky thanks to the author.

In my old plain-html site I had a folder "/free/files" with downloadable zip files. Now under Joomla I want to put the same files in folder /files. I created an item that redirects free/files to /files, and that works fine.

However, what I really need is to redirect all file requests from /free/files/a.zip to /files/a.zip - and this does not work with the redirect above. Do I have to create an item for each individual file?

(Also, placing the "ErrorDocument 404" directive in .htaccess does nothing (still getting the same 404 pages from Joomla), but that has probably nothing to do with your extension.)

It works perfectly. It took me a little while because I didn't see I needed to edit .htaccess.
What a life saver!

I'm sooo tired of dealing with this issue. I dread seeing the 404 erros in Google's Webmaster tools.... Just two words: THANK YOU!

Was looking for simple way of redirecting URLs from one customers site to other external sites. Tested many components and this is simply the easiest, cleanest, best manageable tool to do exactly that! Highly, highly recommend it if you need to set-up easily redirect from your internal URL such as http://mysite/linkpage/ to http://redirectedsite/landingpage. Works a treat and simple but powerful management back-end.

One little tip - you can use /partofURL* to ensure that anyone going entering matching that wildcard "*" such as /partofURLpage1 or /partofURLpage2 etc can be redirected on mass to a new landing page.

Would be useful to those who want to redirect whole sections of their old site to new landing page. Couple of ideas like redirection of old shop links, blog pages etc.

If, as in my case, you are looking for a quick way to redirect old (pre-Joomla) URLs that were all «flat» (i. e., http://www.whatever.com/nameofpage.html) and now you are applying SEF and menu structure to get something like http://www.whatever.com/hierarchy/whatever/nameofpage.html), prepare to be disappointed.

ReDJ recognizes «/nameofpage.html» but applies it to all pages with that ending, and you end up with a redirection loop.
Could be solved if http://{siteurl}/whatever.html was also good for «From URL».

I was failing to get a redirect working in htaccess and thought I'd give this a shot - it actaully took me a little work to sort through - but now really doign teh job

To redirect one article page to another url

put the from address as:
/?option=com_content&view=article&id=7*
this covers all instances of the article ( I think! - change 7 to your article number.....)

to address I used:
http://mysite.com/component/andlongurl
(but just put entire url I think)

HTH

This is one of the most useful and easy to use extensions for joomla. It definitely fills a void and is a life-saver. I had trouble using other extensions and all the typing in my .htaccess file was getting overwhelming. This takes the pain out of managing any redirect and 404 page. Apparently this extension also has a custom 404 page to display but I wasn't able to get that to work. However, that's not what wanted this extension for.

Everyone should download this one! Thanks

For those who have access to Google's Webmaster Tools, you may have seen the many static and dynamic web pages returning the dreaded Error 404, sometimes this runs into thousands.

One can use htaccess to redirect pages but no more than a few only, hundreds will slow your site down.

ReDJ provides the ultimate solution to redirect as may URLs as you wish and is ideal for maintaining that all important page ranking when changing your web sites menu structure. One of the best features is to be able to use built in macros and to be able to create custom 404 pages.

If you've used third party applications in directories inside the same root folder as Joomla, you may have experienced Error 404s with conjoined elements of the third party application and Joomla's static or dynamic URL structure. This sometimes happens and can be a nightmare to redirect but ReDJ can handle this.

My website had over 4500 Error 404s that had accrued over time due to migrating from Joomla 1.0 to 1.5, changes to menu setup, and because I did not set up the configuration.php file to include live_site details. The live_site setting in Joomla 1.5, although an option, can cause URL errors depending on your server setup.

I tried all the other available extensions without success but ReDJ came to the rescue.

I highly recommend ReDJ which is an absolute - must have - piece of kit and the developer at Sistemistica is very supportive.

Paul Stuart

Many thanks to Luigi for this great extension. I had a problem with about 6 old URL's giving 404's. I wasn't keen on hacking around in the .htaccess file so thought I'd search for a Joomla extension. Found this and within five minutes it was installed and the 6 url's redirected ... no 404's! Top Marks from me.

Wanted initially just to do a single redirection and came across this. Had some trouble getting it to work, but that turned out to be my fault for not reading the installation instructions carefully enough - in particular the bit about changing the .htaccess file. Once in place, it looks like a powerful and straightforward way to manage URL redirections both internal and external to the site domain.

I downloaded this extension, because it was the first of its type which seemed to have the ability to be installed and put to use quickly. I was not disappointed in the least.

This thing installed and was running in literally less than 5 minutes. It is broken down into both a component and a plug in. Activated the plug-in and then went into the Components area. Selected "Item," created a new Item, put in the relative URLs of both the page I was re-directing from and the one being re-directed to. Hit Save... typed in the old link... and it immediately worked.

In my situation, it was a case of having re-named a page that I'd already given potential clients links to. I needed a quick fix to avoid them running into 404 pages. ReDJ did the trick, instantly.

I registered myself to write this review about ReDJ. Its a wonderful plugin and very user-friendly. Does the job perfectly.

Thanks.

Installed the component. Took over my old 404 pages immediately with the ones that I redirected them to.
Had a problem with an interaction with UddeIM (or maybe SH404SEF), but the author was extremely prompt on my 'bug' report and corrected the problem within 1 day.
Great component, plugin and most of all: the best support I ever had with a non-commercial extension (way better than some commercial ones).

Had some troubles with Phoca SEF. Backend was scrambled so I couldn't get anywhere. Installed this and 2 minutes later my problems were solved. With SEF tuned on, URL maintenance can be a headache. If you need to change a menu alias, this will allow you to solve the problem immediately. Will make this standard on all my builds.

Having gone round in circles trying to get a redirection working with htaccess I found this extension and had the redirect working in 5 minutes!!! Hats off to the developer.

Well designed. Works great. Smooth all the way around.