NB only set up a redirect using the process outlined below AFTER you’ve published the new page. If you set up a redirect and your new page isn’t live, the old page will have nothing to redirect to and anybody trying to get to the old page will get an error message.
To set up a redirect from a page on the old site to the page that replaces it on the new site, click Configuration on the menu bar at the top of the CMS.
On the configuration page click URL redirects.
To set up a new redirect click the +Add redirect button.
In the Path field add all the elements of the old url that appear after barnardos.org.uk/ (e.g. if you want to redirect this page: http://www.barnardos.org.uk/what_we_do/corporate_strategy/impact-report.htm just paste this bit: what_we_do/corporate_strategy/impact-report.htm into that top field).
In the To field start to type in the name of the page on the new site that you want to redirect to, and select from the dropdown suggestions.
Or you can add the last part of the url of the page you’re about to publish on the new site. You can find this under URL alias in the URL PATH SETTINGS box on the right of the edit page. So for the example above you’d paste /measuring-our-impact into the bottom field.
In the Redirect status dropdown, select 301 moved permanently (unless you’re setting up a temporary redirect).
Select the appropriate site from the add multisite dropdown (e.g. main site or intranet).
Then click Save and about half an hour later the old page will redirect to the new one.
You can edit or delete a redirect by clicking on the button (select edit or delete) on the button on the right of the row of the relevant item on the list on the redirect page.
You can reorder the list of redirects according to the target pages (by clicking to) or according to when they were created (by clicking created).
You can also search for redirects by typing keywords into the from or to fields at the top.
Bulk redirects
To add a group of pages that have the first parts of their urls in common (a pattern), use the Broken link redirect function.
There are two types of pattern redirects:
1. Pattern-to-one URL redirect.
2. Pattern-to-one URL redirect preserving the original url the user is looking for (the request path).
The first one is simple and easy to set up. The second is more complicated.
Adding a pattern-to-one URL redirect
To set up a redirect from a group of pages on the old site to a single page on the new site, click Configuration on the menu bar at the top of the CMS.
On the configuration page click Broken link redirect.
Then click Add Broken link redirect entity.
In the Broken link pattern field, enter a path using 'Regular Expression'. This means entering the elements of the old url that appear after barnardos.org.uk/ but adding a backslash \ before each forward slash / and replacing the final element with (.+|\s)
For example, if you want to redirect all the pages in the old research and publications section: http://www.barnardos.org.uk/resources/research_and_publications
enter the following in the Broken link pattern field\/resources\/research_and_
This matches anything starting with "/resources/research_and_
Leave the Enabled box ticked.
Weight field determines the order of execution.
You can 'test' regular expression on this site:
https://regexr.com/
If any of this is unclear, or your redirect doesn't work, contact the development team.
Pattern redirect preserving the path
For more complex patterns, speak to the development team product managers or delivery managers