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Chris Spicer
Chris Spicer

Reputation: 2194

Joomla Redirect when Download File not Found

I have a website where customers can download msi files. Over time, I retire older version and drop them from my site.

I've noticed that a number of users are following links to the older file paths. When the do, they're seeing the following:

Not Found

The requested URL /files/VBADiff/VBADiff_Professional_Setup_2_0.msi was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I would like to either display my custom 404 message or redirect them to the correct download path. Unfortunately I can't figure out how to do this - I'm a bit surprised that visitors aren't already seeing my 404 message. Can anyone help?

Edit: I'm using version 1.5.11 of Joomla.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 360

Answers (2)

Brent Friar
Brent Friar

Reputation: 10609

File downloads, particularly direct links from an outside referrer do not instantiate the Joomla framework so nothing in Joomla is going to help your problem. Depending on the URLs you are using to get to the files, you will have to fix this issue with either a typical 301 redirect for URLs without query strings or mod_rewrite for those with.

Upvotes: 1

Mike
Mike

Reputation: 5818

You can use a redirect plugin for joomla 1.5 which also protocalls 404 accesses. I like this one: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/url-redirection/14676

Upvotes: 0

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