Redirects Helper

Important

This is currently an experimental version. It is a proof-of-concept and not yet used for production. Use at your own risk!

What does it do

This extension does the following:

• Adds the field "protected" to sys_redirect and TCA so that redirects can be protected from automatic deletion. (This is a backport of v11 functionality.)
• Supplies a command redirects_helper:sanitize to convert redirects with a path as target to page targets. This has the following advantages:
  • no more redirect loops - all redirects point directly to the final target by page id (which does not change when the URL is changed) https://forge.typo3.org/issues/92748
  • prevents problems with redirects which do not work, see issues https://forge.typo3.org/issues/89327 and https://forge.typo3.org/issues/91557

Commands

Warning

There is no going back. Make a backup first.

path2page

Converts the target of redirects. Only those with a path as target are converted to page link, e.g. "t3://page?uid=83".

Show help:

vendor/bin/typo3 redirects_helper:path2page -h

Use dry-run (does not change anything):

# -d: dry-run: do not change anything, only show
vendor/bin/typo3 redirects_helper:path2page -d

You can use -v, -vv or -vvv (with increasing verbosity level):

# -v: verbose
vendor/bin/typo3 redirects_helper:path2page -d -v

The output will show paths which can be converted (starting with "OK:"). With verbosity level -vv and above you will also see failed attempts to convert (which are not an error but due to fact that not all targets can be converted).

You can also use this to filter for targets which cannot be resolved:

# -v: verbose
vendor/bin/typo3 redirects_helper:path2page -d -vvv | grep -E "Skipping: URL.* does not resolve to valid URL"

These are redirects where it might make sense to remove them. But beware, this is also the case if the target page is hidden.

By default, interactive mode is on, so you must confirm each conversion. If you are confident, that it works correctly, you can use -n (non-interactive)

# -v: verbose
vendor/bin/typo3 redirects_helper:path2page -n