[plugin] [ORPHAN] zem_redirect

zem · 2004-07-06 23:49:00

Throk, the plugin will redirect if the domain name doesn’t match the one set in your Textpattern configuration.

If the Textpattern domain is configured as http://www.relativemind.net, and you have a redirect set up to http://relativemind.net, the plugin will redirect back to www.relativemind.net. That could be why you’re seeing a circular redirect. Changing the web domain in the textpattern config to http://relativemind.net should fix that. Let me know if it doesn’t.

I’ll look into the /default/ problem.

Last edited by zem (2004-07-07 00:04:57)

zem · 2004-07-07 00:03:52

There’s a new version up:

http://vigilant.tv/documents/tp/zem_redirect-0.4.txt

I think it fixes the “default” issue – can someone confirm?

It also adds a “test” attribute, to help debug circular redirects:

<txp:zem_redirect test=1 />

When set, the plugin won’t force a redirect; instead it will output a HTML comment showing the actual URL used to access the page, and the URL it would redirect to.

misterk · 2004-07-07 19:19:17

One thing that would be neat and fits into the scope of your redirect plugin would be to check whether the /section corresponded correctly to the entry id.

If I enter station11.net/read/[random number within the limit of my posted articles], the article will show up regardless of whether it is really in the read section. Not a big deal, but if zem_redirect could check and fix that as well as the title it would be cool.

Sencer · 2004-07-08 10:16:59

I am still getting circular redirects, however this may be due to my blog having imported entries from b2. I guess this won’t happen if you only have entries made with textpattern.

An example can be seen here:

http://www.sencer.de/article/50/openbook----freie-b%EF%BF%BDcher

There are some “funny characters” in the url, anyway I have test-mode activated and I always get this:

<code>requested URL: http://www.sencer.de/article/50/openbook----freie-b%EF%BF%BDcher redirect to: http://www.sencer.de/article/50/openbook----freie-b�cher</code>

Last edited by Sencer (2004-07-08 10:19:12)

zem · 2004-07-09 04:18:50

Thanks for the report, Sencer – it’s a bug in the plugin’s handling of non-ascii characters. Nothing to do with b2. I’ll fix this and the other outstanding issues soon.

ThrokFeroth · 2004-07-09 06:18:04

Funny thing really. When I put in the test attribute this is what comes out:

requested URL: http://www.relativemind.net/
redirect to: http://relativemind.net/

when I requested for http://relativemind.net.

zem · 2004-07-09 07:08:25

Hmm, strange.

The domain name in the “requested URL:” output comes from the SERVER_NAME variable. That’s supposed to be the current vhost name, but it’s not necessarily clear whether that’s always the case – for example after a 302 redirect, which is what you’re using in addition to the plugin.

I’ll add an option to the next version to ignore the domain name portion of the URL. Hopefully that’ll solve the problem for you.

zem · 2004-07-10 02:38:49

There’s a new version up:

http://vigilant.tv/documents/tp/zem_redirect-0.5.txt

Changes:

Adds a new attribute “ignoredomain”, to help eliminate circular redirects on www/no www domains
Adds a new attribute “errorid”, which specifies an article ID to display as a 404 message
Now checks that the URL section matches the article section, and redirects if necessary – useful if you’ve moved an article from one section to another
Should fix the non-ASCII URL bug (untested)

Sencer · 2004-07-10 07:54:04

> zem wrote:
> Should fix the non-ASCII URL bug (untested)

Confirmed. For me it works as expected now. Thank you, zem! :)

ThrokFeroth · 2004-07-10 13:12:17

Ok, it works well on my site now with the ignoredomain attribute. The /default problem isn’t there either.

Thanks alot, zem.

Andrew · 2004-09-28 22:38:13

I have a weird behavior from this plugin. I’ve set up a new section & page type for errors. If you request a non-existent article id the plugin behaves fine & throws a 404 invisibly. But it you just put in nonsense after the domain (a non-existent section) then the plugin redirects you straight to the error page, not invisibly as an ErrorDocument should.

Edit: this isn’t referring to my personal site; it’s an internal site unfortunately not accessible from outside my work

Last edited by compooter (2004-09-28 22:42:06)

hafnius · 2004-10-13 03:01:20

Hi Zem

Great plugin!

Any chance that you could include the option of providing an acticle id for Authorization Required, 401?
/Hafnius

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