Redirect with hash or query params about jekyll-redirect-from HOT 6 CLOSED

It may bit different from both of your needs, but on the same topic. What about passing through hash and query params from the first request to the new URL?

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It would be tremendously useful to be able to redirect based on URL parameters. See this Stack Overflow question.

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I think you both might be talking about different things.

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@parkr Yes I think you are right. I was asking to append a hash or query parameter to the redirect URL. For example:

VISIT http://google.com/outdated-page
REDIRECT_TO http://google.com/new-page?from=outdated-page

or

VISIT http://google.com/oudated-page
REDIRECT_TO http://google.com/new-page#modal

This could be a config option when setting redirect_from in the target page's top matter. The syntax could be extended (and remain backwards compatible) to be something like:

redirect_from:
  - /path/to/howdy.html
  - path: /path/to/old.html
    params:
      - from: old

It sounds like @danvk is looking for something like

VISIT http://google.com/oudated-page?q=abc
IF q
  REDIRECT_TO http://google.com/new-page
ELSE
  REDIRECT_TO http://google.com/coolest-page

This doesn't seem possible because the "/oudated-page" path can only resolve to a single file, and the <meta http-equiv="refresh"> tag does not allow conditionals. It would likely require JavaScript to function correctly.

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I'd be very happy if I could include something like this in the frontmatter:

redirect_from:
  - /foo?bar=baz
  - /foo?p=2

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@danvk That's not possible with Jekyll alone because Jekyll is simply a static file generator.

For the path "/foo" there exists one real file, which is likely "/foo/index.html". Inside the HTML file, there is a single <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;/new-foo"> tag that your browser reads and follows. There is no possibility of branching, i.e. checking URL parameters.

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