Title: Plugin page tips for URL format
Last modified: October 27, 2017

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# Plugin page tips for URL format

 *  Resolved [iantresman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iantresman/)
 * (@iantresman)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-page-tips-for-url-format/)
 * It would be very useful if the Redirection plugin page, provided tips as to the
   format of the Source URL and Target URL.
 * I can never remember whether these are (a) full URLs, (b) which one is a partial
   address, (c) whether it needs a leading slash.
 * The tip could be just a sentence or two, or a (?) pop-up tip. eg.
 * Source URL is a path to the file, WITH a leading slash, eg. /17-10-27/oldfile.
   htm
    Target URL is a full URL, eg. [https://www.mydomain.com/posts/newfilename.htm](https://www.mydomain.com/posts/newfilename.htm)

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 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-page-tips-for-url-format/#post-9628688)
 * The plugin works just like adding a link in a `<a href="">` HTML element – if
   you put a `http://` in front then you are providing the website domain, if you
   just start with a `/` then it’s relative to the current domain.
 * The plugin will remove any absolute URL you put into the source. The target can
   actually be a relative or absolute URL.
 *  Thread Starter [iantresman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iantresman/)
 * (@iantresman)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-page-tips-for-url-format/#post-9628715)
 * And I guess the advantage of relative URLs is that they work for both http://
   and https://
 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-page-tips-for-url-format/#post-9629030)
 * Yep, also they will continue working if you change the domain name.

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 * Last reply from: [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-page-tips-for-url-format/#post-9629030)
 * Status: resolved