In the Components menu, you may have noticed a new addition in 1.6: the Redirect Manager. It works in conjunction with a plugin called Redirect, which is also part of the default installation and which is enabled by default. The Redirect Manager and plugin keep track of any "page not found" errors that occur when visitors are trying to visit pages in the current domain that have been removed or deleted. In the Redirect Manager screen, these URL errors are listed. This way, you can keep an eye on the old URLs that still attract visitors, but just generate "page not found" errors. For each of these URLs, you can choose to redirect future visitors to the right pages.
This feature can be quite useful, especially if you're migrating a Joomla! 1.5 site to 1.6. URLs from your old site are bound to change, resulting in broken links from other sites that still point to expired URLs. The Redirect Manager helps you to direct visitors from expired URLs to new URLs).
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