Redirecting old URLs

When you move to the Odoo website from an existing system or website, you must redirect your old URLs to new URLs. With proper redirection, all of your SEO rankings will be moved to new pages. In this recipe, we will see how to redirect old URLs to new URLs in Odoo.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will be using the my_hostels module from the previous recipe. For this recipe, we are assuming that you used to have a website and have just moved to Odoo.

How to do it...

Imagine that, in your old website, books were listed at the /my-hostels URL; as you know, the my_hostel module lists hostels on the /hostels URL as well. So, we will now add a redirection rule in Odoo that will redirect your old /my-hostels URL to the new /hostels URL. Perform the following steps to add the redirection rule:

1. Activate developer mode.
2. Open Website | Configuration | Redirects.
3. Click on New to add a new rule.
4. Enter values in the form, as shown in the following...