managing URL redirections 404, 301

Hari

in our flarum we do not have URL management system

whenever user visits a deleted page flarum says

"The page you requested could not be found." Return to home

developer johngodley made a wordpress plugin to manage these kind of issues. https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/

https://github.com/johngodley/redirection

someone please make a extension or add this to flarum core

clarkwinkelmann

Hari There is this extension that does exactly what you describe but it has been abandoned due to poor popularity. I could update it for a fee if interested https://discuss.flarum.org/d/8597-redirects

For migration purposes, I have seen it better suited to develop a custom extension for a given software like https://extiverse.com/extension/migratetoflarum/vbulletin-redirects

For general redirects, I usually use Cloudflare's redirects or htaccess/nginx rewrites.

There is also this extension that allows customizing error pages https://discuss.flarum.org/d/10784-custom-html-error-pages

Hari

MarkoK i miss that plugin Hari

miowski

clarkwinkelmann How much would be that fee ? Miow

Hari

Hi, but using redirects plugin we can not find what are 404 URLs.. is it possible to implement a reporting system where we can see what are 404 URLs? above Wordpress plugin provides this feature

clarkwinkelmann

miowski to just update my extension without adding any new feature, 50 CHF or USD, corresponding to about 1h of work for update + testing.

Hari if you click on "404" tab it will show you the report which are 404 urls

This sounds like a very different feature. Happy to give a quote for that, but I would probably make it as a separate extension as it doesn't seem to share anything with the redirect rules?

Hari

Do let us know how much it will cost

We need all the features which are available in WordPress Redirection plugin

Main feature is : if you click on "404" tab it will show you the report which are 404 urls

Hari

With old extension we can not see what are 404 urls .. again we need to depend on Google webmaster tools .

Whatever wordpress extension is offering it's a full package where we can manage everything at one place.

Once install and explore and and qoute

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Hari If you are using Apache, you could do it this way

RewriteEngine On

# exclude directory index
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/index\.(php|html?)$
# exlcude auto-index of directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
# if the request is not a file, directory, or symlink
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
# set the "notfound" environment variable
RewriteRule ^ - [E=notfound:true,L]

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/404-requests.log common env=notfound
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/requests.log common env=!notfound

askvortsov

I'm a bit confused by what you mean by 404 management: do you want to create redirect rules that will forcily show 404 errors for some routes? Or do you just want to log 404 errors?

Hari

askvortsov what you mean by 404 management

when a page is not found falrum core or any flarum extension should create a log

based on that log we should able to redirect requests to other URLs

Hari

is this features possible with flarum?

askvortsov

It's definitely possible, but would need either a big update to the redirects extension, or a new extension.

Hari

How much it gonna cost if you port wordpress plugin for flarum ?

@clarkwinkelmann can you fix Redirection and add this 404 not found urls feature to existing extention. How much it will cost ?

clarkwinkelmann

Hari please contact me directly, preferably via email.

There will be quite some re-writing to do. One aspect of the existing extension that isn't really outlined in the README is that it's been optimized for being quick with few rules, Cloudflare-style. It won't handle well having many URLs and the number of rules is also limited by the size of a Flarum setting. This will need re-writing to rely on databse instead of loading all rules into memory like it currently does.

So basically this would be a mostly new extension.