Howto use in 404.html and forward to page.url on different domain?

marbetschar commented 6 years ago

Hi!

I'd love to use your plugin to forward requests to another URL, since my blog moved from WordPress to Jekyll: https://blog.marco.betschart.name - and my homepage is a GitHub Pages static site too: https://marco.betschart.name

Now, every path on the homepage which can't be found, should be redirected to the blog:

url: "https://marco.betschart.name/my-awesome-title"
redirectTo: "https://blog.marco.betschart.name/my-awesome-title"`

For this, I created a 404.html page on GitHub Pages:

---
title: Redirecting...
layout: redirect
redirect_to:
  - http://blog.marco.betschart.name
---

And now wanted to create a custom layout for the redirect page according to your docs using a combination of {{ page.redirect.to }} and {{ page.redirect.from }}:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Redirecting...</title>
  <link rel="canonical" href="{{ page.redirect.to }}{{ page.redirect.from }}">
  <script>location="{{ page.redirect.to }}{{ page.redirect.from }}"</script>
  <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url={{ page.redirect.to }}{{ page.redirect.from }}">
  <meta name="robots" content="noindex">
  <h1>Redirecting...</h1>
  <a href="{{ page.redirect.to }}{{ page.redirect.from }}">Click here if you are not redirected.</a>
</html>

Unfortunately this redirects to http://blog.marco.betschart.name/404.html - which is not the expected behaviour. How to preserve the initial page.url the user really wanted to visit in the first place and how to pass this to the redirect template?

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pathawks commented 5 years ago

This is not possible.

DirtyF commented 5 years ago

@marbetschar you might want to take a look at Netlify redirections: https://www.netlify.com/docs/redirects/