Migrating from Visualforce based sites and communities

Visualforce Migration Lessons Learned

A collection of lessons learned and procedural guides for migrating from legacy Salesforce communities/ portal products to Lightning Communities (Aura).

Old URL Pattern to New URL Pattern

A previous site may have lived at something.gov/blah. Today, that page likely lives at something.gov/s/blah.

Re-evaluate permissions

The visualforce-based site may have hidden some strict permissioning issues by way of tightly scoped SOQL queries. Revisit the permissions granted to unauthenticated users to ensure old, outdated, or irrelevant records are not suddenly appearing.

Examine outputs in sitemap.xml to see if the expected pages are being published.

Decommissioning a site entirely

• Remove custom domain CNAME
• Establish redirects from old URL or domain to relevant page on another site.