Redirect Manager

Redirect Manager is an Episerver CMS helper utility to define url redirections and manage them with a graphical user interface Redirect Manager menu is available at CMS section for defined roles

Solita.RedirectManager.TestProject is a sample project to demonstrate how to use Redirect Manager.

To allow specific roles for access define a location set authorization at web.config file

<location path="EPiServer/Solita.RedirectManager">
    <system.web>
        <authorization>
            <allow roles="WebAdmins, Administrators" />
            <deny users="*" />
        </authorization>
    </system.web>
</location>

Features

• Add/Remove redirection rules
• Wildcard pattern matching
• Import redirection rules from CVS file
• Display specific rule's last match datetime

How it works:

Configure your site to route HTTP 404 errors

<httpErrors errorMode="Custom">
    <remove statusCode="404" />
    <error statusCode="404" path="/error/http404" responseMode="ExecuteURL" />
</httpErrors>

At handler apply redirect rules

 public class HttpErrorPageController : Controller
    {
        [Route("error/http404")]
        public ActionResult Http404()
        {
            var rewritemapService = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<RewritemapService>();

            var originalUrl = IisErrorUrlParser.GetOriginalUrl(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.Url, 404);
            var redirectTo = rewritemapService.FindRedirectUrl(originalUrl.Host, originalUrl.PathAndQuery, true);
            if (redirectTo != null)
            {
                return RedirectPermanent(redirectTo);
            }
            Response.Clear();
            Response.StatusCode = (int) HttpStatusCode.NotFound;
            return Content("404 Not found");
        }
    }

Further development

• Build solution using configuration DevDeploy
  • DevDeploy configuration packages Solita.RedirectManager project
  • Copies the required build artifacts to Solita.RedirectManager.TestProject project
  • This way changes in the redirect manager project are available immediatelly in the test project after build

Tests

All unit tests should be green. Otherwise there is something wrong with core functionalities

Build targets

Custom build targets are defined in Solita.RedirectManager.csproj file(in the end). The custom build targets are activated only if "DevDeploy" configuration is selected