Django Robust Redirects

A more robust django redirect project.

Supports

• Regular expression redirects
• Ordinary direct redirects
• Partial path redirects
• Excluding paths that will never be redirected

Installation

1. Install the package from pip pip install django-robust-redirects

2. Add the following line to your INSTALLED_APPS::

     INSTALLED_APPS = (
         ...
         'robustredirects'
     )

3. Add the following lines to your middleware::

     MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
         ...
         'robustredirects.middleware.RedirectMiddleware'
     )

4. Make and run migrations to add the tables to your database

5. (Optional) Add the following lines to your settings to ignore certain paths::

     # URL path prefixes that should never be redirected
     ROBUST_REDIRECTS_IGNORED_PREFIXES = ('/api', '/admin')

Converting from django.contrib.redirects

Robust redirects comes with a management command that will copy all django redirects over into robust redirects, just run python manage.py convert_redirects

Changelog

See the CHANGELOG.md file

Running Tests

1. Change to the redirecttest directory
2. Install the requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Initialize the database with python manage.py migrate
4. Run the tests with python manage.py test robustredirects