Creating url rewrite for old url

Question

As part of product data migration from one store to another i need to change url keys on some of the products. Entire process is being done in shell script.

So imagine i used to have product with following url key: nice-prod1 . It used to be in some category and whatnot. Now, after migration, it has become: nice-prod2. It's accessible by it's new key so everything is fine. But the first one is not working anymore. So what I need, is to create url rewrites that redirect nice-prod1 to nice-prod2.

I tried to achieve this using setData('save_rewrites_history', true); before saving changes in product (which is part of collection), but no url rewrites are generated.

Answer 1

Use the admin feature. Go to Catalog → URL Rewrite Management. See this for some more info.

To code it yourself, here is a GIST with the code you need.

Mage::getModel('core/url_rewrite')->setIsSystem(0)->setOptions('RP')->setIdPath('Imported-Old-Website-URL-test1')->setTargetPath('alicia-suspender-skirt-32360')->setRequestPath('SHOPONLINE.aspx?Product=Alicia Skirt&Brand=Lascivious Test&PID=1975')->save();
Mage::getModel('core/url_rewrite')->setIsSystem(0)->setOptions('RP')->setIdPath('Imported-Old-Website-URL-test2')->setTargetPath('alicia-suspender-skirt-32360')->setRequestPath('SHOPONLINE.aspx?Product=Alicia Skirt&Brand=Lascivious Test&PID=1975')->save();