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Hi

We’re looking to convert several sites, each with 100+ pages to using Expression Engine.

Ideally, existing pages would be able to be transferred onto EE, but since they a long-established with a lot of incoming links, we would need to keep existing URLs for search engine purposes.

Is this possible?

If not, can anyone recommend any other solution (that doesn’t involve 301ing all the existing pages! 😊 )

Thanks

Roger

Maybe you could provide examples of the existing urls. Basically whether or not the url structure will change is pretty dependent on what’s the current structure versus what structure do you need in EE to (1) get the publishing flexibility you want, and (2) then reflect urls.  Sometimes its possible, sometimes its not.

One way you can keep existing URLs is to use the Pages module.

I’ve done it for things like aboutus.htm instead of /index.php/site/info/about-us—and others along those lines.

The caveat is that the “real” file can’t be there. So if you had a file called aboutus.htm, you’d need to rename it or remove it.

Thanks Sue, that looks very much like what I am looking for.
http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/pages/index.html

So if I understand correctly, I can make EE manage a page like: http://www.example.com/this_directory/sub_directory/page.html ?

My only concern is the word ‘virtually’ in:
“these special “page” entries can be displayed with virtually any URL desired”

Can you (or anyone) tell me what limitation the module has?

Thanks

Roger

If you wanna convert all your URL’s (100+ i suppose), Are they dynamically made? or static?

The pages module is for static pages not dynamic ones, for the dynamic ones you need to use templates..

Dynamic= On the fly page creation? like a blog post/a product page etc etc

i have the same question, except i have over 1000 articles that i will transfer to EE, but i am worried about the zillions of links to my articles. they are dynamic links created from my CMS called Siteworks

ex:
http://www.maximumink.com/articles.php?articleId=275

someone told me i would have to do 301’s, but i’m hoping there might be some automated way…