How to manage and configure URL redirects for your Web page using #WebhostingManagement and #CoreAdmin

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Introduction to URL redirection with #CoreAdmin

In some cases you need to configure URL redirection so your web page can present different pages according to a source URL without having to do this configuration inside webpage.

Prerequisites

You will need to have access to a working #WebhostingManagement installation where to configure URL redirections.

How to configure URL redirection with #CoreAdmin

URL redirection with #CoreAdmin is pretty straightforward. Click on the webhosting to manage and then go to URL redirect section as shown:

Then go:

Inside there you will be able to list, remove, edit and create new URL redirections. To create a new URL redirection here is how. Click on “Add URL redirect” and then fill the form:

How URL redirection works with #CoreAdmin

All URL redirection configured is placed directly into Web server configuration, without touching your site .htaccess file (for example).

This makes possible to configure URL redirection not only for webpages with php but also for the rest of technologies available.

At the same time, this avoids any possibility to interfere with software doing .htaccess automatic changes like #Wordpress or #Prestashop.

URL redirection limits and performance

It is known working cases where users are configuring more than 40.000 url redirections without any issue. It is not known where could be performance problems though 40.000 is a good number.