PagePathHistory and 140000 URLs

[Zeka]

Hi

I'm moving quite a large news site from custom CMS to PW. Currently, it has 140000 pages. The current URL structure is like 2020/01/09/slug.html After import to PW all these pages will be under one parent "Archive" and will have new URLs and I'm thinking how better handle this amount of redirects. There is PagePathHistory module in the core with its quite convenient methods like $page->addUrl. But I'm not sure how it will perform with such number of rows.  

What do you think? Maybe there is a better way how to manage it? 

Eugene

 

 

[teppo]

Since it's presumably a one time thing, I would at least consider going with Apache rewrites for the old URLs. This should have better performance, and it should also be quite easy to handle.

You might be able to do this with some simple rules assuming that the old slugs are directly converted to ProcessWire page names, and if not, you could set up a RewriteMap file instead (https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/rewritemap.html).