Magento url rewrite management

Question

I have confusion in URL REWRITE Management. Can you please anyone explain it?

If url = www.domain.com/all-category/boys-toys/action-toy-figures.html it redirects to www.domain.com/action-toy-figures.html

I used custom but I can't understand that field section. Can you please explain it to me?

Answer 1

Type *

Is it a redirect for a product, category or something else.

ID Path *

Some unique identifier (inside the store?). So you can find your redirect)

Request Path *

The path the customer requests

Target Path *

The path you want the customer to see

Redirect

Do you want to make a HTTP redirect (301/302) or redirect internally, which means, no redirect is made, but the controller/router is transfering the request to the other controller

Description no clue, I don't think it is anything important - it is just a description

Hope this answers the question?

Update: Following this logic, for this example:

• old url www.domain.com/all-category/boys-toys/action-toy-figures.html
• i want to redirct to this www.domain.com/action-toy-figures.html

You need these settings:

• Request Path: all-category/boys-toys/action-toy-figures.html
• Target Path: action-toy-figures.html

Works for me:

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Pragma: no-cache
Location: /test.html
Server: Apache/2.4.12 (Ubuntu)
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 12:50:33 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Connection: close