Re: Changing the default location for Friendly URLs

> James,
>
> You can put whatever code you require in the /projects/yourprojectname/
> errors/404.cfm to handle any migration redirects required and this is
> run instead of the redirect the homepage. a very simple example would
> be that /projects/yourprojectname/errors/404.cfm just contains
> <cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="yes">
> <cflocation url="/page-not-found" addtoken="no">
> <cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="no">
>
> It would be easy to build in some logging to the /projects/
> yourprojectname/errors/404.cfm to record the missing URL and the
> http_referer and then report on the missing URLs that require action.
>
> I recently took a V3 site with "/go/..." type URLs to V5 and created
> all the old URLs as 301 redirect URLs for the new site. This was easy
> as it was a Farcry to Farcry site and the old content item objectID
> was used to match the old to new URLs.
>
> Chris.
>
> On Jun 23, 3:34 pm, James Buckingham <Clarke...@...> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Chris but that's not really what I was meaning.
>
> > The 404 is working fine because if I specify this address....
>
> >http://www.newsite.com/hr/index.cfm
>
> > ....which doesn't exist on the new site, it redirects the user to
> > this.......
>
> >http://www.oldsite.com/hr/index.cfm
>
> > ...if however I put in this address without the index.cfm ...
>
> >http://www.oldsite.com/hr/
>
> > FarCry is saying "I've got a friendly URL here so I need to look up
> > the objectID for this. Oh hang on this doesn't exist so I'm going to
> > send them to the home page".
>
> > What I want FarCry to do is send this user to the 404 instead of the
> > home page.
>
> > We've been doing some digging around today and found that the redirect
> > is actually being dealt with by the display.cfm in FarCry Core (tags/
> > navajo/display.cfm) at lines 75 / 76. It's hard coded to say go to the
> > home page via the value application.navid.home though. Ideally I'd
> > like to be able to repoint this to the 404.
>
> > From what I see I've got two choices
>
> > 1) I repoint the index.cfm to read a custom display.cfm which is a
> > copy of the core and change the code I need. Downside to this is I've
> > then go to monitor any changes to the core as updates come out so
> > that's not ideal.
>
> > 2) I manually create a FU for each of folders which doesn't exist on
> > the new site and tell it to redirect to the old. That's a lot of work
> > though and it means we'll have to remove them over time while they
> > migrate across.
>
> > Can anyone think of any other options?
>
> > Ideally it would be good to have an option in the Admin > Config >
> > Friendly URL config to be able to specify where FarCry redirects if a
> > friendly URL doesn't exist. Something to raise on the wish list?? :-)
>
> > Cheers,
> > James
>
> > On Jun 23, 12:37 pm, Chris Kent <mxdes...@...> wrote:
>
> > > James,
>
> > > Yes, you can override the default 404 page processing of redirecting
> > > to the home page by creating the following file /projects/
> > > yourprojectname/errors/404.cfm
>
> > > and place whatever code you need to handle 404's
>
> > > Chris.
>
> > > On Jun 23, 10:11 am, James Buckingham <Clarke...@...> wrote:
>
> > > > Hiya,
>
> > > > I'm working on a 404 error page for our new page. The job of the 404
> > > > is to first check our old sites ( running on separate domains) to see
> > > > if the page exists there and if it doesn't then throw a "Page not
> > > > Found" page.
>
> > > > It seems to be working fine if I put in something specific like
> > > > this...
>
> > > > http:///www.myNewWebsiteDomain.com/hr/aboutus/page.cfm
>
> > > > ...however if I put in....
>
> > > >http://www.myNewWebsiteDomain.com/hr/aboutus/
>
> > > > It looks like the FarCry is grabbing it, checking the address against
> > > > its Friendly URLs ( /hr/aboutus/ ) not finding it and sending the user
> > > > to the home page of our new site.
>
> > > > There are hundreds of these so I don't want to put them all into
> > > > FarCry manually. Is there anyway of customising the current Friendly
> > > > URL code to say I want to send them to the 404 rather than the home
> > > > page?
>
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > James