Redirects 

With Redirects, users are able to redirect inbound traffic to Pages, Files or External URLs.

Scenario - preserving old URLs 

You have successfully migrated your site to TYPO3, however you have several critical URLs from your old installation such as my-site.com/contact-us.aspx that need to redirect to pages in your new TYPO3 installation.

You can set up a redirect for /contact-us.aspx that redirects visitors to your new Contact Us page in your TYPO3 installation.

Scenario - preparing a URL for future use 

Your company will be attending a trade show next year and instead of providing attendees with a link to your homepage, you want to point them to a new page with specific information about your company that will be relevant to people attending the conference.

You can set up a redirect for /expo-2027 that points to your home page and give that to the event organizer.

Then, once you have built your conference specific page, you can update the redirect so that it points to the new page.

Creating a redirect 

From the Link Management module, select Redirects followed by Add redirect.

Screenshot of the Add redirect button found within the Redirects submodule

Setting a Source Domain and Source Path 

Screenshot of the Source Domain and Source Path fields found within "create new redirect"

Source Domain - this is the domain used in your TYPO3 installation. If you have multiple domains on a single TYPO3 installation, you will need to specify which one you are using here.

Source Path - this is the path that will be redirected. Using the example above, we specify /contact-us.aspx here. Note that any query parameters will be ignored.

Setting a Target 

Screenshot of the target field found within "create new redirect"

The Target selector allows us to specify which Page or file is served when visitors visit the redirected URL.

Using the example above, we would select the Contact Us page in the Page Tree.

Access Tab 

Screenshot of the Access Tab found inside Add redirect.

Enabled: Toggle the redirect on and off.

Publish Date: Set a publish date for when you want the Redirect to become active.

Expiration Date: Set an expiration date or when you want the Redirect to be no longer active.

Notes Tab 

Screenshot of the Notes Tab found inside Add redirect.

Add an internal note that other backend users can view.

Managing existing redirect rules 

Screenshot of the Redirects main page, with two example records.

Once a rule has been created, you then have the option to edit an existing record, toggle it on or off and also delete the record.