Nanoc-Redirector

This plugin implements client-side redirects from and to other generated pages. It's pretty close in functionality to Jekyll's redirect-from plugin.

Redirects are performed by serving an HTML file with an HTTP-REFRESH meta tag which points to your destination. No .htaccess file, nginx conf, xml file, or anything else will be generated. It simply creates HTML files.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'nanoc-redirector'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install nanoc-redirector

The object of this gem is to allow an author to specify multiple URLs for a page, such that the alternative URLs redirect to the new URL.

To use it, simply add a string or array to the YAML front-matter of your page:

title: My amazing post
redirect_from:
  - /post/123456789/
  - /post/123456789/my-amazing-post/

For example, this frontmatter will generate two pages in the following destinations:

/post/123456789/
/post/123456789/my-amazing-post/

Each will point to wherever My amazing post is routed to.

You can also specify just one url like this:

title: My other awesome post
redirect_from: /post/123456798/

You can implement this functionality by calling NanocRedirector::RedirectFrom.process anywhere in your Rules file. You must pass in the item to redirect to, as well as its destination. For example:

require 'nanoc-redirector'

postprocess do
  @items.each do |item|
    NanocRedirector::RedirectFrom.process(item, item.identifier.without_ext)
  end
end

RedirectFrom.process takes an additional argument, config, which accepts two keys:

• :output_dir: the directory where files are written to
• :index_filenames: a list of index filenames, i.e. names of files that will be served by a web server when a directory is requested.

Sometimes, you may want to redirect a site page to a totally different website. This plugin also supports that with the redirect_to key:

title: My amazing post
redirect_to:
  - http://www.github.com

If you have multiple redirect_tos set, only the first one will be respected.

You can implement this functionality by adding a filter to your compile step:

compile '/**/*.md' do
  filter :redirect_to, { :redirect_to => @item[:redirect_to] }
  layout '/default.*'
end