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I want to create a homepage and, for now, I think Github's pages features will serve my needs. However, I might want to switch to a more full-blown CMS/blog engine later on.
Is it possible to serve a permanent redirect (HTTP 301) from Github pages in case I decide to move my homepage someplace else while preserving all the old URIs?
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What is a 302 redirect? Whereas a 301 redirect is a permanent relocation of your URL, a 302 redirect is a temporary change that redirects both users and search engines to the desired new location for a limited amount of time, until the redirect is removed.
Best I can deduce is that Github has not yet added this. See Tekkub response from April 2010 re: adding it to the feature request list. Another message from another user in January suggests a META tag as a workaround (probably not a good solution).
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Mass redirect layout technique
Individual page redirects are covered at: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36846720/895245 Actual 301s seem impossible.
If you want to mass redirect:
http://you.github.io/some/path
to:
http://new_domain.com/some/path
do as follows.
Before you move away
_layouts/default.html: the default layout
_config uses the default layout:
defaults:
-
scope:
path: ''
values:
layout: 'default'
After you move away
create _layouts/redirect.html with an HTML redirect derived from Redirect from an HTML page along:
{% assign redir_to = site.new_domain | append: page.url %}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Redirecting...</title>
<link rel="canonical" href="{{ redir_to }}"/>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url={{ redir_to }}" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>Redirecting...</h1>
<a href="{{ redir_to }}">Click here if you are not redirected.<a>
<script>location='{{ redir_to }}'</script>
</body>
</html>
_config contains:
defaults:
-
scope:
path: ''
values:
layout: 'redirect'
new_domain: 'http://new-domain.com/some/path
replace every non-default layout with a symlink to the redirect layout. This is the only ugly part of this technique. I don't see a beautiful non-plugin solution.
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