Redirecting in Radiant

Ruby Apps Radiant CMS
1

Having moved one of my sites to Radiant, I needed to implement
permanent (301) redirects on some old URLs. Since I’m running under
Mongrel behind Apache’s mod_proxy (on TextDrive), I needed to do
something at the Radiant level. (This was before mongrel could do
redirects.)

I decided to patch SiteController to add a redirect_page action:

def redirect_page
redirect_to params[:url].to_s
headers[‘Status’] = ‘301 Moved Permanently’
end

then I added some routes:

Site URLs

map.with_options(:controller => ‘site’) do |site|

 # snip . . .

 # Redirects for old static-site URLs
 site.connect 'products.htm', :action => 'redirect_page', :url =>

‘/products/’
site.connect ‘products1.htm’, :action => ‘redirect_page’, :url
=> ‘/products/’
site.connect ‘samples.htm’, :action => ‘redirect_page’, :url =>
‘/sample-genograms/’

 # etc.

end

This got me thinking that it might be useful to have a way to specify
“alias URLs” for a page, much like one currently can specify the slug
for a page. That way one can define the URLs for a page in Radiant,
instead of having to edit an Apache htaccess or a lighttpd config
file (the latter of which requires bouncing the web server).

Would anyone else be interested in this functionality? I may work on
it just for kicks . . .

  • Sean
2

A short behavior could do the trick, since you have direct access to the
response object. This might work:

class RedirectBehavior < Behavior::Base

register “Redirect Permanently”

description %{ Redirects to another page. }

def process(request, response)
response.headers[“Status”] = “301 Moved Permanently”
response.redirect(page.page_config[“url”])
request, response = nil, nil
end

end

Cheers!

Sean C.
seancribbs.com