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1. Updated: The tutorial Migrating URLs, the feature page and the URL ma… (opens in a new window) · 11/07/2026 05:35 am

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   Updated: The tutorial Migrating URLs, the feature page and the URL map examples use the migration helpers
   
   The steps of a migration now use the helpers of the import instead of shell
   commands, in English and German:
   
   - Collecting the old addresses: exp:url:from-sitemap and exp:url:from-404, and
     the tabs From the old sitemap and From the 404 log of the import screen; the
     404 log gives paths only, as it hides the values of a query
   - Building the map: exp:url:suggest and the tab Suggest targets, with
     --fill-above and the other suggestions in the note
   - Testing: exp:url:test and Test the old addresses after an import, with the
     states it reports and its exit code
   - The feature page has a section on the helpers and their commands; the
     examples show how to test a file after an import
   - Changelog 6.0.15

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2. Updated: exp:url:test follows a redirect whose answer it stops readin… (opens in a new window) · 11/06/2026 12:31 pm

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   Updated: exp:url:test follows a redirect whose answer it stops reading early
   
   The test asks for no body and stops each transfer at its first bytes; curl
   then leaves the redirect address empty, so every 301 and 302 was reported as
   "not redirected" (found on alpha with pages of its own sitemap that move). The
   Location header is now read as the answer arrives and used when curl has none.

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3. Added: URL map helpers as tabs of the import screen, and a test of th… (opens in a new window) · 11/06/2026 12:28 pm

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   Added: URL map helpers as tabs of the import screen, and a test of the old addresses after an import
   
   The import screen of the administration gets the helpers of the console, so
   a site can be moved without a shell.
   
   - content/urlimport/(source)/sitemap: the old site's addresses from its
     sitemap (an address of a public host only: every address of the host is
     checked and the connection is pinned to it, so nothing on the server's own
     network is fetched), or an uploaded sitemap or list; /(source)/404: this
     site's 404 log, by hits, within the last days; /(source)/suggest: a map
     whose rows lack a target
   - Each with the targets suggested and filled in from a score; the map is
     downloaded as CSV to complete in a spreadsheet, or opened as an import to
     preview (rows without a target are not importable there)
   - After an import, Test requests its old addresses (the first 500) on the
     site of its siteaccess (its SiteURL), follows the redirects and lists the
     rows that did not land; the result stays with the import
   - The tabs are links with the view parameter source; forms post, nothing
     is read from the query string. Shared components and tokens only, in the
     admin4 and admin designs
   - The strings in every administration catalogue
   - The BC note in English and German, the changelog, the generated page of
     the view
   - Tests: the form of a helper, the tab addresses, the site address of the
     test and the kept results of an import, without a database

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4. Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into u4-urlmap-helpers (opens in a new window) · 11/06/2026 12:09 pm
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5. Added: Documentation of the URL map helpers in the BC note, the chang… (opens in a new window) · 11/06/2026 11:58 am

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   Added: Documentation of the URL map helpers in the BC note, the changelog and the generated command pages
   
   - The BC note "URL map import and export" has the section "Helpers for
     moving a site": what exp:url:from-sitemap, exp:url:suggest, exp:url:from-404
     and exp:url:test do, that the 404 source is the not-found log the kernel
     already writes (no new log or table), the limits of the requests, and the
     contract they follow; also in German
   - The changelog of 6.0.15 has the helpers and the PathPrefix fix of URL map
     targets
   - The generated pages of the four commands in English and German, the
     changed option help of the other exp:url commands, and the module view
     pages of the URL map screens generated again from their sources

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6. Added: URL map helpers: from an old sitemap, from the 404 log, sugges… (opens in a new window) · 11/06/2026 11:58 am

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   Added: URL map helpers: from an old sitemap, from the 404 log, suggested targets, and a test against the site
   
   Four helpers around exp:url:import for moving a site: start a map from the old
   site's addresses, fill in the new ones, and check after the import that every
   old address lands where it should.
   
   - exp:url:from-sitemap and expUrlMapSitemapSource: a sitemap, a sitemap
     index with the sitemaps it names (relative ones too), gzip-compressed, or a
     crawl list with one address per line; only the sitemap's host unless
     --only-host or --any-host, every address once, --limit; XML read without
     the network and never with a DOCTYPE, malformed XML read for its 
     elements with a warning
   - exp:url:suggest and expUrlMapSuggester: for every row without a target,
     the visible pages of the siteaccess scored from 0 to 100 by their URL alias
     and name against the old address (decoded, camelCase split, transliterated,
     endings such as .html and index pages dropped, words that differ only in an
     ending count most of a match); --fill-above writes the best one into
     new_url (never a tie), the others go into the note or --report. Targets are
     written as visitors use them (without the PathPrefix). The pages are
     indexed once by word: 4,811 old addresses against 4,496 pages take seconds
   - exp:url:from-404 and expUrlMap404Source: the addresses of the not-found log
     (404.log and its rotated and gzip files) or of web server access logs, the
     most asked first, with --min-hits and --since; assets, bots and methods
     other than GET and HEAD left out; a query the log hides is dropped
   - exp:url:test and expUrlMapTester: every old address requested on --base,
     several at a time, the redirects followed hop by hop: landed, wrong-status
     (a permanent redirect where a temporary one is asked, or the other way),
     wrong-target, not-redirected, error (no answer, a loop, too many redirects);
     wildcards tested with a sample, node targets by the node's address, the
     PathPrefix taken as…

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7. Updated: Expiring the wildcard cache removes its index, so a new wild… (opens in a new window) · 11/06/2026 11:51 am

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   Updated: Expiring the wildcard cache removes its index, so a new wildcard answers at once
   
   Expiring the wildcard cache only moved its expiry timestamp. An index
   built in the same second still counted as current, and a PHP-FPM worker
   whose OPcache held the previous expiry.php kept the old index for up to
   opcache.revalidate_freq seconds: right after an import made in the
   administration, a new wildcard answered 404 for a while. The index file
   is now removed as well, as the cache of the redirects already is, and
   the next request builds it again.

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8. Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into u3-url-map-admin (opens in a new window) · 11/06/2026 11:28 am
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9. Updated: A wildcard or redirect added or removed answers at once inst… (opens in a new window) · 11/06/2026 11:25 am

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   Updated: A wildcard or redirect added or removed answers at once instead of after a minute
   
   The wildcard cache and the cache of the redirects are PHP files written
   again under the same name. OPcache kept serving the old copy until
   opcache.revalidate_freq passed (60 seconds on alpha's PHP-FPM), so right
   after an import, an undo or a wildcard made by hand the old addresses
   still answered as before for up to a minute. Reading either cache now
   drops the cached copy when the file is newer than it (one stat per
   request, nothing when OPcache is off).

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10. Added: Documentation of URL map import and export, a tutorial for mig… (opens in a new window) · 11/06/2026 11:20 am

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    Added: Documentation of URL map import and export, a tutorial for migrating URLs and example files
    
    How to keep the old addresses of a site working after a move to Exponential,
    in English and German:
    
    - The feature page Importing and exporting URL maps: the formats, the kinds
      and statuses, query-string redirects, the preview and its states, undo,
      export, the administration screens, the policies and the console commands
    - The help-center tutorial Migrating URLs, step by step: collect the old
      addresses from the old sitemap or the web server's 404s, build a mapping
      file, import it with a preview and a dry run, test the old addresses, undo
      an import, and export for the web server or a backup
    - URL map examples: small mapping files in CSV, JSON, Apache and nginx
      format, one with query-string and temporary redirects and one with
      wildcards, each planned with exp:url:import --dry-run with every row new
    - Updated: the glossary has URL map, query-string redirect and temporary
      redirect; the URL translator and wildcards pages of the help and the user
      manual, the import and export tools table, the guides, the specification
      and the BC note link to the new pages; the indexes list them
    - Changelog 6.0.15

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