I am trying to give a custom url to categories in order to shorten the URL but have several issues. My problem is we have multiple levels of categories but one level was just created so that the navigation menu visually has a heading above a group of categories but we don't want that category to appear in the url path. For example, this category URL is similar to https://example.com/category1/category2/category3.html but we would like it to be https://example.com/category1/category3.html. I was able to change it using the catalog url rewrites in admin but when urls are reindexed it loses this value. Also, the canonical url is still the original that Magento created. Is there a way to achieve this? My SEO thinks the shorter URL is much better.
That is what I was trying to do and it reverted to the original URL after the store was reindexed. I am not wanting to create a 301 redirect but need the actual URL changed.
Well, changing of original URL is not possible for this one because whenever reindexing happens it will automatically revert the URL & even you cant change it manually from the database. So, its compulsory to use 301 redirects for URL.
