Hi - been tying myself up in knots at this.

I have a new site being built on the same domain as existing. All content has been imported fine. I use JoomlaTools docman for documents on both old and new site. I don't want to import all the old documents because there's a lot of junk - problem is, all the links to documents embedded in content pages are relative. I need to be able to selectively catch links to old documents and then redirect them to the old site.

I tried an apache rewrite rule but couldn't get it working - then found your plugin - which looks great but I must have been getting the syntax wrong.

Example is:

(relative link embedded in content) /documents/library-home/doc_download/3288_example_document.pdf needs to redirect to:

intranet.mydomain.local/documents/library-home/doc_download/3288_example_document.pdf

I need to catch any link that starts /documents/ and add on the old server name and domain but keep the url intact. Is this possible?

thanks, sem

Solved it!

Created a rule thus:

From URL: /documents/
To URL: http://oldserver.domain.local{path}{queryfull}

Type 301, Case sensitive False, Request Only False, Decode URL True

Works a treat!

Thanks for a great plugin!

sem

Ah! Yes, thanks Luigi! It's not a problem for my use though as all the links to documents are relative and were done using Advanced Docman Linker in JCE. Thank you for the suggestion.

sem