Note: This module is not actively maintained and has not been tested with ProcessWire 3.x. If you think the functionality of this module is useful and you want to maintain it, please get in touch.

This modules allows you to easily manage past page URLs tracked with the PagePathHistory module.

It extends the settings tab on the page edit form in the backend and allows you to:

• view past URLs of the current page and parent pages,
• delete past URLs, and
• create new fallback URLs.

1. Install the module PagePathHistory from within the Processwire admin. PagePathHistory is included in core but not installed by default.
2. Install this module from within the Processwire admin or copy the file content to /site/modules/PagePathHistoryManager.
3. In Admin, click Modules → Check for new modules to refresh module directory. Afterwards install the newly registered module PagePathHistoryManager.
4. You can now manage past URLs from within the settings tab when editing any page.

If you want to handle URLs with non name-format characters (all characters but -_.a-zA-Z0-9/~), i.e. to redirect content from a legacy website, you will need to modify your site's .htaccess file. By default requests to these URLs are directly redirected to the „Page not found“ page, you have to deactivate the directives responsible for this behavior.

Please remove or comment out the following lines:

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# OPTIONAL: Send URLs with non name-format characters to 404 page
# Remove this section if it interferes with URLs of any other software you may be running.
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "[^-_.a-zA-Z0-9/~]"
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?it=/http404/ [L,QSA]

… and these lines as well:

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Ensure that the URL follows the name-format specification required by ProcessWire
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "^/~?[-_.a-zA-Z0-9/]*$"

You will only need to remove these lines, if you want to handle non name-format characters. If you're not sure whether you need it or not, leave it as it is.

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Copyright (c) 2015 Marc Löhe

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