Advice On Generating Mass 301 Redirects

General General Questions
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I am migrating my old school static html site to CS-Cart 4.2 :)

My old site is completely static and basically a collection of thousands of html files with no online backend system attached to it.

My ranking in Google is top notch and I want to preserve this by correctly 301 redirecting all urls to the CS-Cart locations.

But the question is how?



Does anyone have advise on how to generate a list of old urls and add 301 redirects for each url?



How to generate a list of old urls?

Is it best to add redirects to the .htaccess file or the CS-Cart 301 redirect manager?

Is there a way to catch any urls that result in a 404?

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Hi



Can you not just make sure they have the original SEO name? Assuming you will be using same www.***.



Barryh

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The old urls are very different than CS-Cart url's. Not only in syntax, but also in site set-up. The old site has different pages for every product option, while in CS-Cart customers can buy everything form the same page.

I gather that I will need to use a sitemap generator tool / spider or something.

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Hi



If you can sort say A to Z and export, then import to CS the SEO (URLS) that might work for you!



Barry

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how about downloading “copyfilenames” , then have the old site local on a windows machine to copy all the filenames.

Paste them into excel then do a find replace for the www.oldsite/ and replace with www.newsite. Same with all the different product option names but point each corresponding one to the new 1 single page on cs.

Then do a redirect on old server for www.oldsite to www.newsite,

JOhn

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If I download all files to a windows machine, then that will include both html and non-html files. I only need the urls of the html files. Not the non-html files. It doesnt seem like I can ignore non-html files with the program copyfilenames.



The domain name will stay the same. There are tens of thousands of html files in many folders. Is there a script which I can use on the IIS server to create a text file of the html files?

Once I have a text file with all original urls I can paste that into Excel and manually put the target url's in the 2nd column.

From there, I can generate the .htaccess code in this way: http://www.geoffmanning.com/technology/generate-301-redirects-in-excel/



This way I will put it straight into the .htaccess which is probably better in terms of performance.



So the main question seems to be: what script can I use to create a complete list of old urls?

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download all files, paste into excel, filter column by .html files only…copy paste the filtered files to another worksheet, then all you have is .html files



John

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This is a good tool i have used when i have many redirects:

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I figured it out. Maybe its of use to anyone else.

I downloaded all files to my pc. Installed copyfilenames: CopyFilenames - a free Windows File Explorer extension

Then copied all file names per directory and pasted it into this: http://textmechanic…ix-to-Text.html

There I added the missing part of the url.

Then I downloaded the 301 redirect generator: https://websiteadvan…irect-Generator

I added the old urls in there.

From there it's a matter of going through each old url and finding the new url on the new site and entering that into the new URL column. Still a lot of work, but at least its possible.