URL redirection for products and categories from Modified to Shopware 6

Want to switch from Modified E-Commerce to Shopware?

Please note that Modified URLs are completely different from Shopware URLs. This means you will lose your entire Google ranking.

Google can re-index your site, but until then, anyone clicking on an old Google search result for you will encounter an error message.

We can help with this. You can easily prepare a spreadsheet using Excel or OpenOffice and simply insert the old and new links. Copy these from your browser into a CSV file and upload it to your Shopware shop (*). Done!

In the plugin, you will find these columns:

- Old URL
- New URL
- Active
- Temporary (302)
- External Redirect
- Removed (410)

Normally, you simply enter the old and new URLs and mark them as active by entering a "1".


The browser then redirects the visitor and returns a "Redirect OK" message (important for search engines).

However, you can also activate the response 302 Temporary OR 410 Removed if your SEO agency requires it. In that case, a 1 will be entered in the corresponding column. Or a 0 for "no".

The External Redirect column is for exactly that – external redirects. So, if a specific entry should be redirected away from your shop, let's say to your WordPress blog.

What if I upload the file first and then see an error?

Don't worry – you don't have to re-upload everything. You can simply click on the table in the shop admin and edit it. And of course, you can also delete individual entries or all of them.

How do I check if I've done it correctly?

You can check this very easily: simply access your Shopware 6 shop (e.g., shopware6.my-shop.de) and append the Modified URL to the end.

For example:

Your modified shop has a product with the URL

www.my-shop.de/my-great-product::5186.html

then you access:

shopware6.my-shop.de/my-great-product::5186.html

Now the shop should automatically redirect to the correct Shopware product, e.g.,

shopware6.my-shop.de/my-great-product

You can work in two ways here.

Either you enter the extension directly in the shop, like this:

Old URL: my-great-product::5186.html

New URL: /great-product/

Or you simply paste the complete URL into a CSV file and upload it:

Old URL: https://www.my-shop.de/my-great-product::5186.html

New URL: https://testshop-shopware.my-shop.de/great-product/

Now, if someone accesses an old search result from your modified e-commerce shop on Google, they will land on the correct product page in Shopware.


(*) Import:

The file must look like this:

Extension .csv
Encoding utf-8
Comma-separated
Column names in this order: oldUrl,newUrl,active,temporaryRedirect,externalRedirect,gone

Click here for a sample file as a template.