.csv file upload not working after updates

Thanks for the contribution @stephdotnet.

Another quick tip to add: individual redirects won’t work with this update, so if you need the functionality available after importing you will need to revert this update in the code.

This fix is needed!!

I hope the author, John Godley, can incorporate this fix in the next version of the plugin

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Thanks Stephdotnet and ZanchettaSol! This isn’t the first time this plugin had this problem. It was an issue last year too.

That worked for me as well. Thank you

3 weeks on, still no fix for this.

Second that Mattsapcote. I just checked his fork on GitHub and he even states that 2.4.2 includes the update patch to fix .csv import. I tried and it said it uploaded, but they aren’t there. Where is the .csv sample file so we know where to put the data?

Thanks everybody for this threat, I wasn’t sure if I just formatted the csv file in the wrong way.

Thank you @stephdotnet, your fix worked for me.

Also in case anybody is wondering the csv formatting that worked for me is:

old url(no https://xyz.com), new url(including https://xyz.com)

it seems you can no longer use regular expressions in your redirects when you change ‘group_id’ to ‘group’, so if you want to upload a csv-file set it to ‘group’ and if you want to use reg exp change it back to ‘group_id’

So one month in with no fix, fantastic.

I would happily contribute towards your time to fix the plugin!!

Hi All,

This was frustrating me as well… So I went ahead and made a pull request on behalf of Stephendotnet https://www.ads-software.com/support/profile/stephdotnet

See: https://github.com/johngodley/redirection/pull/78

Thanks for finding this.

We currently have version 2.4.2 but the import does not seem to work even after making the change Stephdotnet suggested. I already spent over 1hr trying different variations of the CSV file. e.g:
oldURL,newURL(http included)
oldURL,newURL(http not included)
etc.

I also saved the CSV under different formats as well with no luck.

After choosing the CSV file, I click on Upload, then it seems like it will upload but right after about 3secs, I get a message saying, “No items were imported”.

The file may not even be uploading and I might have a totally different issue here because I tested with a different CSV file(larger in size) and after about 3 secs again, it gives me the same “No items were imported”. It seems like it is not uploading at all or the upload function is broken.

What am I doing wrong? Anyone else experiencing same issue?

The CSV columns should be:

source,target,regex,type,code,match,hits,title

source: any source url or partial
target: any target url
regex: any regular expression, if used, can match using capturing groups () and $1, $2, $[…]
type: url, random, pass, error, nothing
code: 301, 302, 307 (301 is usual, permanent redirect)
match: url (url only), referrer (url and referrer), agent (url and user agent), login (url and login status)
hits: set the starting hits counter.. usually 0
title: optional title or description to display in admin

Example of rows:
/old-page,/new-page,,url,301,url,0,Some optional title
/old-page2,/new-page,,url,301,url,0,