New Theme making unwanted changes?

[marknc]

I recently gave our website a complete facelift changing theme, colours, layout, pretty much an entirely new look.

Among these many changes we made the text main section links capital letters. Unfortunately, this changed the urls for each of the respective pages to capital letters also.

As the site has been around for some years we know that a considerable number of visitors deep link straight into our site, bypassing the normal route via the front door so to speak. If the urls change this means that these visitors will be greeted with a Page Not Found error.

If we have to leave the text links unchanged in order to avoid this then so be it, but does anyone know a work around so that we can change the menu list to capital letter without this unwanted side effect?

[wjcampbe]

What server software are you running on? Many don't pay any attention to capitalisation and view BOB and bob as the same thing.

If you really do have a problem where the server differentiates, then you can add redirects to handle requests for each changed page.

In an apache system .htaccess file you would need a line that reads
Redirect Permanent oldpagename.html http:/ /fullyqualifieddomainname/acatalog/NEWPAGENAME.html

[marknc]

page names

That seems like a fairly simple solution.
The site is running on a Linux Redhat server. The files affected are only those where I have not specified a page name, ie, quite old pages that have come up from Version 4 of Actinic when there was no option to specify your own page name.
This may sound a little clumsy but would another solution be to somehow delete the old Actinic generated page name then reinstate it in the Page Name box?
Mark

[Mike Hughes]

Yiou can stick with the old page names if you want. Just double click the section / product and enter the name in the pagename box (usually under the layout tab).

Mike

[marknc]

page names

This doesn't seem possible. When I try I get the following message:
"The specified file name conflicts with another file name! Please enter a unique (ignoring case) file name."
Mark

[wjcampbe]

enter the old page name with a 1 on the end. Apply. now remove the 1. Apply.

Done.

[marknc]

Page Names

Yes that seems to work. Well done. It's so nice when the solution is simple. Thank you.
Mark

[jont]

May also be worth setting the page not found error to direct to say the homepage or the sitemap in the .htaccess in case you miss renaming any of the pages

[marknc]

Page Naming

This sounds like a very good idea but not being a techie I do not know the syntax to do this.
Mark

[jont]

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.site.co.uk/index.htm

[marknc]

name changing

I am most grateful to you all for your help in this matter. Thank you.
Mark