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Newbie Question - moving from ASP.NET to Joomla

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9 years 7 months ago - 9 years 7 months ago #3848 by jeffhoneyager
Newbie Question - moving from ASP.NET to Joomla was created by jeffhoneyager
I have a site right now that is in asp.net (ugh) and we are moving it to Joomla.

Is ReDJ correctly used in these steps:

1. create the site in a development area
2. using ReDJ, map out all the old site URLs to the new URLs ... example:
OLD: (http ://bigdeal.com/movies.aspx)
NEW: (http ://bigdeal.com/movies) -- in the global config on dev. site we turn off "Adds Suffix to URL"
3. once all the URLs are redirected, we trash the old site :) and go live with the new site

So anybody going to: http: //bigdeal.com/movies.aspx (asp.net) will go to http: //bigdeal.com/movies (joomla)

Do I have this correct?

We rank page one on hundreds of key words and we don't want to make Google's bots mad.

Am I thinking about this correctly?

Thanks!
Last edit: 9 years 7 months ago by jeffhoneyager. Reason: more clarity

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9 years 7 months ago #3852 by admin
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Yes,
the big picture you figured out is right. Some additional tips:

Create ALL redirection rules without the domain part and with "Request only" true. This allows you to test the redirection even on the old site, and the rule is "portable" (i.e. the rule will work despite of the current domain).
From URL: ^/movies\.aspx$
To URL: {scheme}://{siteurl}/movies
Request only: true (checked)

Do not forget to add this in your .htaccess file (or you will not match .aspx requests, they will be managed by apache):
ErrorDocument 404 /

At last, but not least, remember the From URL field is a regular expression, so you could match MANY URLs with a single rule, and the destination could be different for each different source, thanks to {macros}. For more details on a more advanced ReDJ use take a look here:

www.selfget.com/documentation/redj-joomla25.html

Kind regards,
Luigi
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9 years 7 months ago #3861 by jeffhoneyager
Replied by jeffhoneyager on topic Newbie Question - moving from ASP.NET to Joomla
Thank you for the great detail.

We wont' be using the free version when we start the migration. We will be purchasing. Your advise is worth it!

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9 years 7 months ago #3862 by admin
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U're welcome... even without any Enterprise subscription :)

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