Page aliases and redirects
Role: Site Administrator, Site Manager
A page has one primary page alias as best-practice to preserve SEO. Use the URL redirect functionality to add a secondary alias which redirects to the primary path or to redirect a page to an external site.
Related information
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Unpublishing content.
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Navigate to the administration area, for example, this link.
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Click Edit.
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For the page you want to unpublish, go to the Edit pane.
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Select Unpublished.
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From the Status drop down menu, click Save Changes Alias Removal.
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Disable the Generate Automatic URL Alias option.
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Clear the existing URL alias from the field Click Save Changes.
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Click Exit Editing.
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Click Content Redirect Configuration.
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Click Edit.
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For the new destination page, go to Edit pane.
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On the destination page.
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Expand the URL Redirect section.
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Click Add URL Redirect.
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Add the old page alias to the Path field, and click Save.
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Paste the original page alias into the browser's address bar.
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Old page Alias redirects to the new page.
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Open your new page in Edit mode and see the old page alias has been added.
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Under URL Redirects Redirecting to an external site, Open the page you want to redirect.
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Toggle off Generate Automatic URL Alias.
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Clear URL Alias field.
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Change page status to Unpublished.
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Click Save Changes.
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Click Exit Editing.
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Redirect Configuration.
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Go to Settings.
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Click URL Redirects.
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Click Add Redirect.
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Add the page alias you want to redirect to the Path field.
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Paste URL for the destination external site into the to field.
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Click Save Test.
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The redirect works by pasting the old page alias into a new browser tab.
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The page correctly redirects to the external site.
How to edit
Creating at page level
Make the secondary page alias available
- Unpublish the page which uses it
- Go to the Edit pane
- Change Current state to Unpublished
- Expand the 'URL Alias' section
- Disable the 'Generate Automatic URL Alias' option.
- Delete the existing URL alias from the field
- Save and Exit Editing
Add the page alias to your new page
- Expand the 'URL redirects' section
- Click 'Add URL redirect'
- Add the old page alias to the Path field, and click Save
Verify the alias is working correctly
- Paste the original page alias into the browser's address bar
- Old page alias redirects to the new page
- Open your new page in Edit mode and see the old page alias has been added under 'URL redirects'
Creating in Site Settings
- Unpublish the page you want to redirect and delete its page alias
- Go to Settings > URL Redirects
- Click Add Redirect
- Add the page alias you want to redirect to the Path field
- Paste URL for the destination external site into the To field
- Save
Verify the redirect is working correctly
- Paste the old page alias into a new browser tab
- The page correctly redirects to the external site
Changes may have been made to enhance this feature since we last updated this page. See What’s new for the latest release information.
Last updated: 20 May 2026