Old url don´t dissapear

[dracoteam]

Hi

Please help, is it a bug?

I have a problem and I´ve tested in a brand new Joomla installation. Joomla 2.5.6 Virtuemart 2.0.8e

I have this url: shop/8/2/powertools/circular-saw

Then I change product name and Product Alias, instead of Circular saw I call it Circular sew

and I get this url: shop/8/2/powertools/circular-sew

The problem is now you can type shop/8/2/powertools/circular-saw or shop/8/2/powertools/circular-sew both point to the same product.

Now imagine you change the category and you get this url shop/8/5/powertools/indoortools/circular-sew

Now there are three url that point to the same place. I think old url should takes you to a 404, and you should give a 301 redirection to the new url.

I´ve tried to make a redirection with Joomla redirection component but it doesn´t work, if you type an old url then you´ll get an old url. The problem is Google will index the three urls, that´s duplicate content and I have few urls like that. If you don´t want duplicate with Virtuemart you can´t change anything, but that´s not useful

Can somebody help me, I can´t find any solution

Thanks a lot

[ivus]

Hi dracoteam,

You're right, it's not useful at all.

The issue isn't to do with the spelling of your product name. You'll notice if you test the following URL that it still works.

shop/8/2/hello-world/hello-kitty

The reason is J! uses the slug (both Category and Item) so display the SEF-URL, but they mean nothing in terms of routing. The routing is done using the numbers that precedes it (the 8 and the 2 in this case).

I've also noticed the redirection component doesn't do much, perhaps what you'll need to do is install a third party plugin to get around your problem.

I hope this helps.