URI Management - changing a category or product code

[lesliekirk]

First - I'm thinking maybe we need a forum just for URI Management questions to make it easier to find questions asked and answered for it.

Now, my question. I need to change a handful of category codes. What are the correct steps to do this when the URI Management is in play. Normally I would just change the code and add a redirect in the .htaccess file. I don't want to have to create whole new categories.

[Brennan]

What do your URIs look like? You could just change the category code and leave URIs alone. That is the benefit of URI management not being tied to the category/product codes. You can change them independently.

If you wanted to change the category code as well as the URI to match, then you would change the canonical URI for the category, then add a 301 redirect from the old URI back to the canonical.

[lesliekirk]

What do your URIs look like? You could just change the category code and leave URIs alone. That is the benefit of URI management not being tied to the category/product codes. You can change them independently.

If you wanted to change the category code as well as the URI to match, then you would change the canonical URI for the category, then add a 301 redirect from the old URI back to the canonical.

The dev site Category URI's structure is /&mvt:category:code;.html - the live site structure is the old long style which will be redirected in the .htaccess file. I need to make sure that the old category code will get redirected to the new one.

If I understand correctly, this category will two entries in the URI's for this code?