URI Changes via Management Tab

[dts169]

Hi There,

We currently use the Legacy SEO option with Short Links enabled and also an SEO-friendly Storefront. I watched the URI Management video and from what I gather changing to the New URI Management gets rid of the "/page/" "/category/" uri variable, which is great. I was wondering if there was a way to change the product code variable to the product name as to display http://domain.com/product-name, instead of http://domain.com/product/product-code. It seems like this can easily be done but I'm kind of confused as to where and how to make the change. Is it made in the URI tab or the Settings tab? Do you also have to go through all the steps listed in the documentation?

[Brennan]

Re: URI Changes via Management Tab

Yes. /product-name.html is the default URI that will get generated when you generate URIs. There is a template you can control if you wanted to change this.

Since the default is what you want, you just need to generate URIs and follow the steps in the docs to make the URI Management live



http://docs.miva.com/docs/how-to-mig...ement-features

[alphabet]

Re: URI Changes via Management Tab

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[dts169]

Re: URI Changes via Management Tab

Ok great Brennan thanks!

A couple follow up questions:

1. When you change the page template in the URI settings you just use the snippet showed in the picture ie.

   /&mvt:page:code;.html  
   /category/&mvt:category:code;.html
   /product/&mvt:product:code;.html

   am I understanding this correctly?
2. Is there a way to get rid of the html suffix? Would you simply just leave it off .html from the changed template code?
3. Will links within the site that have the old style /page/product/product-code still work properly?
4. I have a few custom 301 redirects for landing pages, I know that the .htaccess will be overwritten when I switch to URI Management. In case this doesn’t work for me would simply copying the current .htaccess and then going back to Legacy SEO settings be able to recover how the site is currently set?
5. I already “generated” the URIs for the current store will this effect anything with the steps that require you to generate the URIs again or does the system just override them with the current ones?