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:twisted_rightwards_arrows: Seamlessly specify multiple redirections URLs for your pages and posts.
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Add ability to specify a list of redirects in `_config.yml` #251

Closed tordans closed 2 years ago

tordans commented 2 years ago

UseCase: I want split up a project and migrate a big part of a Jekyll site (~50 % of pages) into a different domain (Jekyll site).

Right now, I need to keep all the .html/.md files, empty the content and front mattet and add a redirect_to: <new extern url> to all pages. That does work, but I have to keep around all files which makes my code messy.

Outside of Github pages (on my own server or on Netlify) I could consolidate all those redirects in one place (the .htaccess or _redirects file).

It would be great, if such a use case could be supported in Jekyll as well: I could specify a list of redirects <from_path> <to_path_or_url> right inside the _config.yml or an external data/redirects.yml (referenced in the _config) that in turn would create the pages in their right places.

Some of the logic for this is already there with the redirect_from-Option.

Current hacky workaround:

In fact, using redirect_from we can solve the issue of keeping all redirects in one place in a okayisch hacky way: We can create page for each redirect in a separate folder and use redirect_from (redirect the original location to this new redirect file; first redirect), redirect_to (redirect this new file to the final location; second redirect) for the redirect. This cleans up the code nicely without increasing the file count. It is also okayisch from a SEO point of view since the chain of canonical URLs ist still valid and just increased by one.

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