Phoca Redirects Dashboard Module - displays important information about redirects in the administration dashboard.
Sometimes it happens that we set up the Redirect component in Joomla administration and its URL collection parameter. And we forget about it. Because different robots and spammers try different variations of our URLs, it may happen that the number of links will soon exceed, for example, one million and will keep growing. Which can be a big problem for our database. This module, displayed directly on the Joomla administration homepage, tries to warn us about this.
There are two parameters:
Number of stored redirects, when reached a warning will be displayed
- Set the number of stored redirects, when reached then a warning will be displayed.
Number of stored redirects, when reached the parameter 'Collect URLs' will be disabled
- Set the number of stored redirects, when reached then the parameter 'Collect URLs' will be disabled. Note that this module is neither a system plugin nor an automatic program on the server (CRON), so it cannot be relied upon to disable parameter 'Collect URLs' automatically. It will only be disabled when this module will be rendered in the administration (for example, when an administrator logs into the administration). To actually prevent URLs from being collected at a certain threshold, the system plugin Redirect needs to be manually modified.
By default, the module displays information that we have enabled URL collecting.
When the number of saved URLs exceeds a certain threshold, the notification will increase significantly.
When it reaches the next significant threshold, the module even turns off URL collection.
But note that this module is neither a system plugin nor an automatic program on the server (CRON), so it cannot be relied upon to disable parameter 'Collect URLs' automatically. It will only be disabled when this module will be rendered in the administration (for example, when an administrator logs into the administration). To actually prevent URLs from being collected at a certain threshold, the system plugin Redirect needs to be manually modified.