Hi there, having some trouble and don't quite understand what is happening. I have an old site running a pretty awful custom CMS sitting at oldsite.com and I am porting it to drupal. The new site is currently sitting on an IP address waiting to be completed and have the domain moved. All the site content from the old site is being moved to the new site but with entirely different (better) URLs.

I need to have the 'old' URLs redirected to their new pages and I think Path Redirect should do this.

I have an old path that looks like this oldsite.com/cgi-bin/Site/Pages.pl?Selection=ViewNews&nlIdNum=1&isIdNum=328

On the staging site that content is at [ip-address]/article/articlename

On the new staging site, with Path Redirect installed I entered the 'from' address as everything after the old domain name 'cgi-bin/Site/Pages.pl?Selection=ViewNews&nlIdNum=1&isIdNum=328' (which is a non-existent path on the new site) and for the 'to' address I entered the path to where the new content is.

The result is a 404 page not found, with the 'old' (non-existant) url still in the address bar. It doesn't appear to be redirecting at all.

I am using pathauto and global redirect, although I did disable global redirect to see if that was causing a problem and have since re-enabled it.

Any help greatly appreciated!

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jpjanze commented
Status: Active » Closed (cannot reproduce)

OK - this is annoying but good, it seems to be working now. Not exactly sure what I did as I was 'grasping at straws'. In any event, closing as 'can't reproduce' and can be deleted . Thanks!