How to Implement 301 Redirects with Django/Heroku

Question

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.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

You can use redirect. Please check below code.

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

It worked for me.