CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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dpford
dpford

Reputation: 83

How to Implement 301 Redirects with Django/Heroku

I'm looking to redirect a list of old URLs to a list of new URLs in a Django/Heroku app.

Since I'm using Heroku, I can't just use an .htaccess file.

I see that rails has rack-rewrite, but I haven't seen anything like that for Django.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 8965

Answers (4)

getup8
getup8

Reputation: 8228

While the redirects app mentioned in the accepted answer is a pretty nice solution, it also involves a database call for every 404 error. I wanted to avoid this so ended up just manually implementing this in a URL conf.

"""redirects.py that gets included by urls.py"""
from django.urls import path, reverse_lazy
from django.views.generic.base import RedirectView


def redirect_view(slug):
    """
    Helper view function specifically for the redirects below since they take
    a kwarg slug as an argument.
    """
    return RedirectView.as_view(
        url=reverse_lazy('app_name:pattern_name', kwargs={'slug': slug}),
        permanent=True)

urlpatterns = [
    path('example-redirect/', redirect_view('new-url')),
]

Upvotes: 0

Wagh
Wagh

Reputation: 4306

You can use redirect. Please check below code.

from django.shortcuts import redirect
return redirect(
                '/', permanent=True
            )

It worked for me.

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Upvotes: 3

iCanHasFay
iCanHasFay

Reputation: 670

Try redirect_to

Example from the docs for a 301 redirect:

urlpatterns = patterns('django.views.generic.simple',
    ('^foo/(?P<id>\d+)/$', 'redirect_to', {'url': '/bar/%(id)s/'}),
)

Upvotes: 1

kubus
kubus

Reputation: 783

Django has redirects app, which allows to store redirects list in database: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/redirects/

Also here a generic RedirectView:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/class-based-views/#redirectview

And the lowest level is HttpResponseRedirect:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/request-response/#django.http.HttpResponseRedirect

Upvotes: 6

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