URL Redirect Plug-In
Overview
This plug-in for MURA provides the ability to easily manage URL Redirections. For example if you have a sweepstakes on your website, and the URL is:
http://www.mydomain.com/index.cfm/sweepstakes/christmas-2009-sweepstakes/
This Plug-In allows you to shorten that URL for marketing purposes to something like this:
http://www.mydomain.com/Sweepstakes
Important Note: This Plugin only works on MURA installations that have 1 site, and it works best on sites that have removed the site ID from the URL string. For more information on removing the [Site ID] from your URL please view the instructions here.
Installation
- Download Zip File, Below
- Go to "Site Settings > Plug-Ins" Tab in your MURA Install
- Browse to the .zip file that was downloaded to your drive and select it.
- Click "Deploy"
Additional Instructions
Unfortunately, out of the box this plug-in will only be able to redirect URL's that start with the /index.cfm to something else. This is great for pages that have moved, and you don't want old links to break, but not very powerful from a marketing standpoint. The last thing you need to do is to change your web servers default error page to /index.cfm/error. Here is how to do that in Windows IIS
- Open Up IIS and browse to the website instance the MURA is installed on
- Right Click and select Properties
- Select the Custom Errors tab and navigate to the 404 error:
- Click the Edit button.
- Change the Message type to "URL" and set the URL to "/index.cfm/error"
- Important Note: If you haven't removed the site id from your URL's, then you will need to change the URL to: "/[siteid]/index.cfm/error"
Download
Version: 2.0.3
URLredirects_2_0_3.zip