Everything you'd want to know before you install.
A detailed look at how 301 Redirect Manager & 404 Capture – Shopware 6 works, why we built it the way we did, and the thinking behind the features above.
§ 01
The missing link for redirects in Shopware
Shopware offers no proper redirect management: when you delete a product, change a slug or reorganize your catalog, the old URLs return a 404. The result: Google de-indexes your pages, you lose SEO value and your visitors hit a dead end. DfRedirects brings a real redirect engine, applied very early in the request cycle, before Shopware even generates its 404 page.
§ 02
Three ways to match a URL
Exact matching covers 90% of cases and tolerates the presence or absence of a trailing slash. Wildcard mode lets you redirect entire URL families by capturing segments: an old seasonal collection redirected in a single pattern to its replacement. Regex mode opens the door to the finest cases. Codes 301, 302, 307, 308 for redirects, and 410 to cleanly tell Google a page is gone for good.
§ 03
Your 404s work for you
Rather than guessing which URLs are broken, let the plugin collect them. Every real 404 is captured, deduplicated and counted: you immediately see which phantom pages generate the most lost traffic, along with their referer. Requests to assets (media, thumbnails, bundles) are filtered out of the box, and you can add your own exclusion patterns.
§ 04
One-click target suggestions
For every broken URL, DfRedirects compares its last segment to all your canonical SEO URLs and suggests the best targets with a similarity score in percent. From the 404 log, one click pre-fills the redirect form and marks the 404 as resolved after saving: the loop is closed in seconds.
§ 05
Migration and volume: CSV import
Migrating from PrestaShop, WooCommerce or a legacy site? Import all your redirects at once in the source;target;code;type;active format. The delimiter (semicolon or comma) is auto-detected, the header is optional, wildcards are recognized and every line is validated with a precise error report. Existing rules are updated by source URL.
§ 06
Built for production
Clean DAL architecture (dedicated entities for redirects and the 404 log), interception via the exception event with high priority, filtering of API and admin routes, sales-channel targeting and pattern priority order. Compatible with Shopware 6.5, 6.6 and 6.7 thanks to code neutral toward the DBAL 4 and Vue 2/3 breaking changes.
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