[feature request] automatic redirection

[trebmuh]

Hi.

I've been thinking of this feature a few times so, it needs to be shared here.

When moving a page (or a few pages), it would be really handy that the plugin adds an automatic redirection (into the .htaccess maybe?).

Hope that this will retain your attention.

[splitbrain]

I wonder if this could be added as a plugin to the plugin.

[FosseWay]

I would also be interested in this feature. A significant portion of the content on the wiki I administer is added by users who are migrating it from other deprecated sources (e.g. an old intranet page); however, the namespace /pagename chosen by users does not always match the wiki guidelines, so I move pages fairly often, but then I have to manually ensure that users who have bookmarked the URL of the original non-wiki page (where the content was migrated from) will not get lost when landing on the wiki.

I love the idea of an optional "This page has moved to <new URL>" and/or an automatic redirect. However, I'm not sure I like the idea of .htaccess modification:

• Programmatic modification of .htaccess would have to do a very good job of understanding how .htaccess works, or it might break some people's [custom] .htaccess some of the time.
• After lots of moves, either the root .htaccess would get very complex, or there would be lots of individual .htaccess - all different from one another - scattered through subdirectories. I think this could be hard to debug for a wiki admin without CLI access.
• Seems like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

An alternative: PHP could return a 301 Permanently Moved redirect. I've used MediaWiki a bit - in fact, I tried MediaWiki before abandoning it for Dokuwiki - and the way MediaWiki handles this scenario seems to me to work well.

[rgleason]

It should only be an Option IMHO, otherwise it will clutter htaccess

[GJRobert]

A follow-up of "also insterested"/"also hope to see this feature".

I think the MediaWiki way of moving+redirecting is feasible.

[cknoll]

I am also interested in this feature.

[yareckon]

There is the redirect plugin. Could we not have move hook into that? https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:redirect

[GJRobert]

There is the redirect plugin. Could we not have move hook into that? https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:redirect

A "redirect table" has to be manually built and maintained, to let DokuWiki know the rules of redirection. This is how plugin:redirect works.

It may be great if the rules are recorded at the same time when pages are moved by plugin:move...

[yareckon]

OK, just read the code of the redirect plugin, and it does not have a api at all to add a redirect. It just loads or saves the whole redirects file as a blob. So a proper first step might be to add the feature to that plugin to be able to add redirects line by line. Otherwise, we could just try to append a line to DOKU_CONF . '/redirect.conf';

[stapelberg]

Thanks for bringing this up!

I was looking for automatic redirects, too, so that old URLs keep working when we change our wiki structure.

Adding a line to the redirect.conf file for now seems like a good solution indeed.

[Chiramisudo]

As a workaround, I just re-create the moved page and add a link to the new location. Would sure be great if this feature was implemented though. Seems there are already some ideas on how to do this posted here. 😓

[saschaleib]

For those of us who use the Redirect plugin, a simple #REDIRECT {newpagename} would do...

[GJRobert]

For those of us who use the Redirect plugin, a simple #REDIRECT {newpagename} would do...

@saschaleib Thanks for sharing this info. For this inline usage/syntax, it's plugin:pageredirect [DokuWiki] to be used.

And there is plugin:redirect [DokuWiki], with which we have to write the redirect pairs in a centralized file, so it was not as convenient.