Handling Redirects
You have to use redirects when the file name, slug, or path of an article has been changed for some reason.
To handle this scenario use the previous_url
property.
---
title: Overview
page_title: Getting Started Overview | RadSplitter for ASP.NET AJAX Documentation
description: Overview
slug: splitter/getting-started/overview
previous_url: controls/splitter/getting-started/getting-starter-overview
tags: overview
published: True
position: 0
---
Note that comma characters in
previous_url
are considered incorrect and are not supported. If you need to redirect a comma-containingprevious_url
value, either leave the article without a redirect or build and commit a rule directly in theweb.config
file.
As shown in Example 1, the path set to the previous_url
property has to exclude only the host and base url of the URL. Therefore, if the old URL is:
http://host/devtools/aspnet-ajax/controls/splitter/getting-started/getting-starter-overview
the value to be used will be:
/controls/splitter/getting-started/getting-starter-overview
Note that multiple redirects are not supported. This means that:
A single article can be redirected to a single article, not to many, that is, a given
previous_url
value can be present on only one file.Several articles cannot be redirected to a single article. If you need such a rule, build and commit one in the
web.config
file. Most likely, you will be able to handle an entire folder redirect with a single rule.