Funky redirect gubbins for client
To install My Name is Url, follow these steps:
- Download & unzip the file and place the
mynameisurldirectory into yourcraft/pluginsdirectory - Install plugin in the Craft Control Panel under Settings > Plugins
- The plugin folder should be named
mynameisurlfor Craft to see it. GitHub recently started appending-master(the branch name) to the name of the folder for zip file downloads.
My Name is Url is designed to work on Craft 2.4+.
This phenomenal plugin does three things:
- it detects whether there are uppercase characters in the URL that is being requested and redirects to a lower-case quivalent, eg
Page-urlwill be redirected topage-url - it detects whether the URL contains
index.php?p=and if so redirects, egindex.php?p=page-urlwill be redirected topage-url - in the Plugin Settings you can specify specific redirects
You can set up specific redirects within the plugin settings.
Here you can specify a redirect from X to Y, for example a request from /volunteering to /supporting-communities/volunteering. Any requests for the former will be redirected to the latter with a 301 redirect. Redirect sources should be prefixed with a / - if this is omitted then one will be added on save.
Additionally, you may use the wildcard * as a catch-all redirect. For example if you set a redirect from /news* to /news/latest then any requests for /news/xyz will be redirected accordingly. Redirects take place in sequence, so catch-all requests should ideally be placed last in your list of redirects.
Of course, it is much more desirable to set redirects in your sites .htaccess file or, even better, in your server conf file but for times your clients need ready access to affect redirects this plugin will help.
Click install. That is all
- Migrate redirects to user-accessible template(s)
- Add enable/disable option for case-sensitive rewrites
- Add enable/disable option for
index.php?p=rewrites
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