URL redirects can be used to redirect traffic from one web page to another. When you change a URL on your Run Free Store, you can create a URL redirect to ensure your customers can still find what they're looking for.
For example, if you delete a product, you can set up a URL redirect so that when customers enter the URL for that product, they are redirected to a similar product on your store.
Create a URL redirect
STEPS:
From your Run Free Project admin, go to Layout > Redirects.
Click Add a New Redirect.
In Redirect from, enter the old URL that you want to redirect visitors from.
Only broken URLs should be redirected. Broken URLs might load a "page not found" placeholder message, or "404" might appear somewhere on the page or in the page title. If the URL still loads a valid webpage, then the URL redirect won't work.
Note:
You can't redirect URLs that begin with the following prefixes: /product, /image, /collection, /item, /content, /event, /news, /admin, etc.In Redirect to, enter the new URL that you want to redirect visitors to.
Click Save redirect.
Simple Redirects
Simple redirects work similar to the format that Apache uses: the request should be relative to your stores main root url.
Example
Request: /old-page/
Destination: /new-page/
Wildcards
Wildcards Redirect will redirect all files within a directory to the same filename in the redirected directory. To use wildcards, put an asterisk (*) after the folder name that you want to redirect.
Example
Request: /old-folder/*
Destination: /new-folder/*