URL redirect for changed url structure

Question

I changed my Drupal 6 website tag structure and got a new URL however old URLs are indexed in Google and are generating 404 errors.

My old URLs are

www.mydomain.com/topics/12345/widget
www.mydomain.com/topics/5783/widget2

numeral - 12345 in this URL was tag no in the database

new URL structure is

www.mydomain.com/topics/widget
www.mydomain.com/topics/widget2

Now I wish to create a redirect so that

mydomain.com/topics/12345/widget

goes to

www.mydomain.com/topics/widget 

and remove the random numeral nos in URL.. How to do it?

Answer 1

You can use Path Redirect module. Module page says -

This module allows you to specify a redirect from one path to another path or an external URL, using any HTTP redirect status.

As I see you are talking about taxonomy terms, so alternatively you can use Taxonomy Redirect.

This module allows the administrator to change the destination of Taxonomy Term links.

• The module can now handle redirections at the term level.
• You can specify a replacement character for spaces and + characters.
• You can specify a list of characters or strings to remove from the path
• You can enter php code that will create your path at runtime (In 5.x-1.3, variables for term ID ($tid) and term name ($tname) are available to use in your php code).