Thanks for finding that Justin! I had been doing a search with the keyword "gh-pages" or "github" which gave different results.
This helps a lot. I will investigate these plugins. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Justin Obara <[email protected]> wrote: > We could look at these docpad plugins for managing the redirects. > > https://www.npmjs.org/package/docpad-plugin-redirector > https://github.com/docpad/docpad-plugin-cleanurls > > We should also consider what urls we actually need to maintain redirects > for now and going forward. > > thanks > Justin > > On Dec 1, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Antranig Basman < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > The link "canonical" approach seems reasonable to me. It retains our > site as static infrastructure, and I don't think we will have an > unmanageable number of redirects to maintain. We should check that the user > experience of this approach is reasonable, e.g. on mobile browsers. > > > > Cheers, > > Antranig > > > > On 01/12/2014 15:25, Jonathan Hung wrote: > >> I've been investigating how to set up redirects for the new Fluid > >> website on github pages. > >> > >> The published method of performing a redirect on gh-pages is to use a > >> plugin with Jekyll (see this document > >> <https://help.github.com/articles/redirects-on-github-pages/>). > However, > >> we are using Docpad, not Jekyll - so this approach to redirects will not > >> work for us. > >> > >> One alternative is to use Javascript to handle redirects, but this > >> technique may not be desirable as it does not provide a HTTP 301 - > >> Permanently Moved error code. > >> > >> Another approach is to use a meta "refresh" + link "canonical" as > >> documented in this blog post > >> < > http://konradpodgorski.com/blog/2013/10/21/how-i-migrated-my-blog-from-wordpress-to-octopress/#redirect-301-on-github-pages > >. > >> This provides a 301 error which search engines like, but requires > >> individual HTML files for each redirect we want. This may be acceptable > >> if the number of redirects is not too large. > >> > >> Finally, we can consider hosting our website on our own web server. This > >> makes redirects a lot easier to manage, but requires resources for > >> server maintenance and requires an extra step of deploying from github > >> to the webserver whenever content needs updating. > >> > >> Anyone else have thoughts? > >> > >> - Jon. > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________________ > > fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, > > see http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work > > -- *JONATHAN HUNG* INCLUSIVE DESIGNER, IDRC *T:* 416 977 6000 x3951 *F:* 416 977 9844 *E:* [email protected] *OCAD UNIVERSITY* Inclusive Design Research Centre 205 Richmond Street W, Toronto, ON, M5V 1V3 www.ocadu.ca www.idrc.ocad.ca
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