# Redirect? **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [January 28, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redirect/83682 "2007-01-28T19:43:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anton\_J\_Aylward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e495f1/32.png) [@Anton\_J\_Aylward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Anton_J_Aylward)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redirect/83682/1 "2007-01-28T19:43:24Z")
Is there a way to set up a page so that it silently redirects to another one Something that results in what one might conceive of as \ with appropriate 404 handling? – An NSA-employed acquaintance, when asked whether the government can crack DES traffic, quipped that real systems are so insecure that they never need to bother. Unfortunately, there are no easy recipes for making a system secure, no substitute for careful design and critical, ongoing scrutiny. – Matt Blaze in AC2 ---
**Author:** ![Anton\_J\_Aylward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e495f1/32.png) [@Anton\_J\_Aylward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Anton_J_Aylward)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redirect/83682/2 "2007-01-28T19:49:25Z")
Anton J Aylward wrote: > Is there a way to set up a page so that it silently redirects to another one > > Something that results in what one might conceive of as > \ > with appropriate 404 handling? Anton, I started to do that for some pages on kckcc.edu, but found it was much easier to just write a rewrite rule instead. Here’s an example – this should work on Apache and Litespeed. RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_URI} ^/some/old/page RewriteRule ^/some/old/page(.\*) /about/faq$1 [L,R] If you want it to return a different redirect code (other than 301), you can append that to the R inside the square brackets. You might also find this helpful: [http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/apache/mod\_rewrite-cheat-sheet/](http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/apache/mod_rewrite-cheat-sheet/) Hope that helps! Sean ---
**Author:** ![Anton\_J\_Aylward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e495f1/32.png) [@Anton\_J\_Aylward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Anton_J_Aylward)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redirect/83682/3 "2007-01-28T20:51:34Z")
Sean C. said the following on 01/28/2007 01:50 PM: > I started to do that for some pages on kckcc.edu, but found it was much > easier to just write a rewrite rule instead. Here’s an example – this > should work on Apache and Litespeed. > > RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_URI} ^/some/old/page > RewriteRule ^/some/old/page(.\*) /about/faq$1 [L,R] > > […] It helps me, in the role of the Webmaster. It doesn’t help the client since she only has access to the admin part of Radiant and doesn’t have shell access and would be freaked out by that cheat-sheet page. (I can’t say that’s its illuminating to me. I suppose you have to now all this stuff and view the cheat sheets as an aide memoir.) That’s what the ‘techie geeks’ like us are for, she says. – Any simple problem can be made insoluble if enough meetings are held to discuss it. ---
**Author:** ![Anton\_J\_Aylward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e495f1/32.png) [@Anton\_J\_Aylward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Anton_J_Aylward)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redirect/83682/4 "2007-01-28T21:14:38Z")
On 28/01/07, Anton J Aylward [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > recipes for making a system secure, no substitute for careful > design and critical, ongoing scrutiny. > – Matt Blaze in AC2 > > * * * > > Radiant mailing list > Post: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > Search: [http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/](http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/) > Site: [http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant](http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant) I set up a layout called ‘Redirect’ that has the following template: Then if I have a page I want to redirect elsewhere I just give it the ‘Redirect’ layout and put the url I want to redirect to in the body. ---
**Author:** ![Anton\_J\_Aylward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e495f1/32.png) [@Anton\_J\_Aylward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Anton_J_Aylward)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redirect/83682/5 "2007-03-29T13:47:41Z")
This is excellent stuff for unix newbies like myself. That mod\_rewrite cheat sheet is really helpful. I addition, many web hosts provide a web based interface where you can create your redirects. I use [http://site5.com](http://site5.com) and I was searching for a solution to the redirect problem. I had misspelled the title of a page, and spread the link before I realised my mistake, and I wanted the old link to redirect to the correct page. I found that I could create the redirect easily using the site administration tools provided. It’s not as flexible as writing your own mod\_rewrite rules, but for simple redirects it is really easy and simple to use. I can’t write specific instructions for other hosts, but I found the URL Redirect interface under “Site tools” in the Site5 admin console. Regards, Martin O. [http://smpl.se](http://smpl.se) ---
**Author:** ![Anton\_J\_Aylward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e495f1/32.png) [@Anton\_J\_Aylward](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Anton_J_Aylward)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redirect/83682/6 "2007-01-28T21:48:43Z")
Farrel L. said the following on 01/28/2007 03:13 PM: > Then if I have a page I want to redirect elsewhere I just give it the > ‘Redirect’ layout and put the url I want to redirect to in the body. ## AYAH! Wonderful! Two key perspectives from Jim Collin’s book “Good to Great”. 1) “Being great is a decision” and 2) “Being good is an enemy of being great”