XF 1.2 Route Filters & Duplicate URLs

[TheBigK]

We recently added a route filter to form new URLs - /resources/ was changed to /downloads/ . I checked that Google is reporting duplicate URLs. Because the resources which were linked from the forum posts that had /resources/ in the URL are still intact. That is, even with the router filter in place, if I directly type /resources/ , the page loads fine. Which means there are two URLs on the site that have exactly the same content.

Is there any way to fix this?

 

[Mike]

Routes will canonicalize automatically if the controller in question calls it -- it's generally only called when there's content that might change in the URL (like thread titles).

I suppose for your usage, you could do a .htaccess redirect:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/resources/?$ http://example.com/downloads/