Hi, apologies for duplicating this post but the original thread this was mentioned in is not getting much exposure (and it's the wrong forum)
See it here... http://www.silverstripe.org/migrating-a-site-to-silverstripe/show/19008

I've been doing some testing and it turns out that the Link mapping module isn't working in all cases. The annoying thing is I cannot find any sort of pattern to when it will and wont work.

Here's an example of a redirect that is set up in the Linkmapping module but doesn't work: http://www.bridgeinteriors.co.uk/case-studies/abel-alarm-reception-area/image/40_8/

Most of the time it's URLs that are long winded and awkward like this, but there are examples of long winded urls that do work just as well.
Conversely, this simple url doesn't work http://documentlogic.co.uk/pdf and it's an incredibly simple rewrite!

Please help, or at least add this as a known issue to the module documentation.

Thanks.

Hi Kush,

I managed to get the link mapping module working under SilverStripe 2.4.4 – the reason why it didn't work was due to the routes which was never kicked in.

I added this to my config file in mysite and then the redirection worked as expected:

Director::addRules(2, array(
'$URLSegment//$Action/$ID/$OtherID' => 'LinkMappingFrontController'
));

Joel

By the way, there was also an error regarding the dropdown field.

I simply changed the treedropdownfield to a SimpleTreeDropdownField from Uncle Cheese DataObjectManager.

This worked also.

If you are having problems with the Link Mapping module, maybe you should have a look at my SEORedirect module for Silverstripe 2.4.
The legacy URLs/urls to redirect are added to a CTF on the page the link to - that's how i like it. But should be easy to create an ModelAdmin for the redirects.

Have a look and let me know what you think: https://github.com/NobrainerWeb/Silverstripe-SEORedirect