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Hi there

I am looking to migrate my website to a CMS and have heard good things about Express Engine. I have done quite a lot of work on building links to my website, and therefore need to keep my URLs exactly the same. For example, my URLs mainly lookk something like this:
http://www.mydomainname/first-page.php

Is there any way that I can rename URLs so that they are the same as the originals, without having a negaitve impact on SEO and causing duplicate content, maybe by using 301 or rewrites, or are there any pluggins for this?

I greatly appreciate any advice regarding this as I really would like to use ExpressionEngine.

Hi there

I have built a site in dreamweaver, and am now looking to use a CMS. I have already built links etc to my site and need to keep my URLs the same as the oringials. They look something like this:

http://www.mydomainname/first-page.php

Is there any way that I can rename URLs so that they are the same as the originals, without having a negaitve impact on SEO and causing duplicate content, maybe by using 301 or rewrites, or are there any pluggins for this?

I greatly appreciate any advice regarding this as I really would like to use ExpressionEngine.

You can use the Pages module to specify the URLs to be the same as your current web pages.

Hi happyavocado. Welcome to ExpressionEngine.

Your best approach would be to use 301 redirects. They will let the search engines know that the pages have permanently moved and they should update their indexes accordingly.

One way to do this as a rewrite rule in your .htaccess file:

RewriteRule ^first-page.php <a href="http://example.com/first-page">http://example.com/first-page</a> [L,R=301]

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