URLs and Redirects

[1] URL aliases

[2] Redirects for individual pages

A specific page can be redirected to a different specific page on a different site e.g. /holinshed to http://english.nsms.ox.ac.uk/holinshed. Simply define the source (omitting the Mosaic domain name) and the full URL of the destination.

If you need to redirect a page to another URL within your Mosaic site, then use an 'alias'. See above section.

Note that 404 responses are cached by the web server for 15 minutes, so if you add a new redirect it may take up to 15 minutes before that redirect takes effect.

[2] Redirects for batches of pages

In addition to individual redirects, you can create rules that apply to many pages.

Redirects can be used within your Mosaic site, or to a 3rd party site.

Multiple pages to a single page

Pages that contain a particular path can be redirected to an individual page e.g. /event/workshops/* resolves to an individual page: /our_workshops. Note, the asterix represents any path after the forward slash e.g. /event/workshops/page1 or /event/workshops/pages/page2

Pages with a sub path snippet, redirected to another page (using the same sub path snippet)

In this example (/learningzone/* to http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/*/index.html) any pages with a path that includes the prefix /learningzone/* will be redirected to an index page that includes a path that is the same as the source e.g. /learningzone/insects/page1 to http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/insects/index.html. Instead of 'insects' this could have been minerals and the user would be redirected to /minerals/index.html instead i.e. anything represented by the asterix in the source path will be replaced in the destination URL

Swap the URL, but retain the page name

Very similar to the example above
Use this if you want to retain the page name (potentially including a sub path) of a URL, but replace the first part of the path. e.g. /archive/news/2015/* to /articles/* . In this example all pages after 2015/ will be redirected to a new path, but include the same page name e.g. /archive/news/2015/mypage to /articles/mypage
The above example is for redirection within a Mosaic site, but this can also be used for redirecting to a 3rd party site e.g. /learningzone/insects/page1 to http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/page1.

See examples in the screenshot below:

Note that 404 responses are cached by the web server for 15 minutes, so if you add a new redirect it may take up to 15 minutes before that redirect takes effect.

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