Change Umbraco 'redirect to' to use 301 instead of 302

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I'm using Umbraco 7.0.1 and want to change the default redirect behavior from returning a 302 to return a 301.

So I have a page: /het-obam-perspectief/nieuws/ that redirects to /nieuws/.

I have set this up in the Umbraco CMS:

CMS

When the request comes back I get a 302 (as captured in Fiddler):

Request in Fiddler

Is there a way to reconfigure the default redirect behavior? I've looked around the web and only seen instructions for changing redirect behavior when changing domains (stackoverflow.com/questions/16357712/umbraco-301-redirect-entire-site) or managing each redirect url manually (http://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/301-url-tracker), neither of which satisfies what I'm trying to do.

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1 Answers

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After doing some research, Umbraco's default behavior for the umbracoRedirect property is automatically a 302, and cannot be changed.

There's (2) different options that we have here.

  1. Configure the redirect in either IIS or web.config for the 301 using URL rewriting.
  2. I found this package (haven't tested nor installed), but looks very promising. Seems to basially create a new doc type name umbracoPermanentRedirect and is of type Content Picker, which then does a 301.

Umbraco Perm Redirect

I'd go w/ option (2) since this is the behavior that acts like Umbraco's default property.

Please let me know how this goes b/c our company heavily uses SEO best practices and I'd get pinged on this 302 as well if I had need for redirects.

Apprec.