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UrlTracker

The Url Tracker is used to manage URLs within umbraco. It automatically tracks URL changes, for instance when a node is renamed, and makes sure the old URL will redirect to the new location. This is great for SEO and great for people visiting your website via this old URL. Search engines will update the indexed URL and people won't visit the old, broken URL.
You can also create your own redirects, based on a simple URL or using a Regex pattern. You can redirect to an existing node or a manually entered URL. This is great for migrating existing indexed URLs to your new website!

Features

• Keeps track of URL changes (node gets renamed, moved or the umbracoUrlName property changes)
• Keeps track of not found (404) requests, so you can easily create redirects for them
• Keeps track of removed content and responds with 410 Gone when one requests it
• Redirects requests for old URLs to their new location
• Create your own URL redirects, based on a simple URL or a Regex pattern. You can redirect to an existing node or a manually entered URL.
• Create permanent (301) or temporary (302) redirects
• Supports all extensions, including .php and .html
• Supports all kinds of query string options, like matching a query string and pass through the request query string
• Supports multiple websites in a single umbraco instance

Roadmap

• Datatype
• Better validation (already existing etc.)
• Filtering
• Searching
• Regex capturing groups
• Translation support
• Support UrlRewriting if possible
• SQLCE/Azure support (if it doesn't work yet, untested)

Upgrading from v1 (301 URL Tracker)

1. Back-up the existing infocaster301 database table (schema and data)
2. Uninstall the old package
3. When the database table is removed, restore it by using the script from step 1
4. Install version 2; the Url Tracker
5. The installation wizard will be able to migrate the existing data
6. If the migration succeeded, you can delete the old infocaster301 database

Upgrading from v2

1. Optional: Uninstall the old package (no data will be lost, just to keep the 'Installed packages' clean)
2. Install the new package

Uninstalling

You can uninstall the Url Tracker by removing the package. The database table will not get deleted! If you'd like to remove the database table too, you should do it manually.

Tested with

• IIS 7 and up
• SQL Server 2008 R2
• .NET 4 and up
• Umbraco versions 4.6.1, 4.7.2, 4.9.1, 4.11.9, 6.0.0, 6.1.1 (won't work with pre v4.6.0), so it should work with umbraco v4.6.0 and above

Credits

• InfoCaster - Being able to combine 'work' with package development and thanks to colleagues for inspiration.
• Richard Soeteman - Richard came up with the idea for a package which keeps track of URLs of umbraco nodes.
• The uComponents project - For inspiring me to create a single-assembly package solution.

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