[solved]Moving articles in new category: former url still available?

[Michael]

Hi,

 

I got to restruture some of my listings and categories and I stumpled across a suprising feature (at least for me).

 

My site structure:

 

directory/categoryA/subcategoryA1

           /categoryA/subcategoryA2

 

etc...

 

thanks to the jReviews Menue (hidden) an article within subcategoryA1 has the following URL: subcategoryA1-ID-article-alias

 

Now I got to move this article (i.e. listing) from subcategoryA1 to subcategoryA2

 

therefore the new URL is subcategoryA2-ID-article-alias

 

Now comes the fun part: Although I moved the listing from A1 to A2, I could still type in the former URL as deeplink for the listing (article). This also works, if I do not even move the article, even after clearing browser- jReviews- and Joomla-cache.

 

To give you an example from the demo:

 

http://demo.reviewsforjoomla.com/coffee-shops/194-polcaris-coffee

 

is as well available under http://demo.reviewsforjoomla.com/nightclubs/194-polcaris-coffee

 

Ok, maybe I am just outing myself as noob right now, not knowing enough about menue-structures in joomla. However - can you confirm that this is a correct behaviour and is meant to work this way?

 

I am just asking, because if so that's a great feature, i.e. I can move articles without loosing the former URL. I already feared that this could cause search engine issues or I got to setup 301-redirects, in order to prevent 404-errors.

 

Thanks!

[Alejandro]

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