Redirect Old Links to New Links

Overview

This document is to instruct unit administrators about how to point old URLs to new URLs. This is sometimes required if you have unpublished old content and replaced with new content, and there are still links pointing to the old content on other web sites, from google or from individual bookmarks. 

Table of Contents

Steps

Step 1: Open the Redirect Tool

Once you've logged in, click the "Configuration" menu item in the top navigation.  See screen cap below. 

Then click "URL Redirects"

Step 2: Create a Redirect

Click the blue "Add Redirect" button

Then fill in the redirect form:

Step 3: Save & Test

Click the blue "save" button. Then go into a web browser and type in the old URL you were trying to redirect, and make sure you are automatically redirected to the new URL you wanted to send people to.