Python + Django page redirect

Question

It's simple:

from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect

def myview(request):
    ...
    return HttpResponseRedirect("/path/")

More info in the official Django docs

Update: Django 1.0

There is apparently a better way of doing this in Django now using generic views.

Example -

from django.views.generic.simple import redirect_to

urlpatterns = patterns('',   
    (r'^one/$', redirect_to, {'url': '/another/'}),

    #etc...
)

There is more in the generic views documentation. Credit - Carles Barrobés.

Update #2: Django 1.3+

In Django 1.5 redirect_to no longer exists and has been replaced by RedirectView. Credit to Yonatan

from django.views.generic import RedirectView

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    (r'^one/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/another/')),
)

Depending on what you want (i.e. if you do not want to do any additional pre-processing), it is simpler to just use Django's redirect_to generic view:

from django.views.generic.simple import redirect_to

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    (r'^one/$', redirect_to, {'url': '/another/'}),

    #etc...
)

See documentation for more advanced examples.

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For Django 1.3+ use:

from django.views.generic import RedirectView

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    (r'^one/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/another/')),
)

There's actually a simpler way than having a view for each redirect - you can do it directly in urls.py:

from django.http import HttpResponsePermanentRedirect

urlpatterns = patterns(
    '',
    # ...normal patterns here...
    (r'^bad-old-link\.php',
     lambda request: HttpResponsePermanentRedirect('/nice-link')),
)

A target can be a callable as well as a string, which is what I'm using here.

Since Django 1.1, you can also use the simpler redirect shortcut:

from django.shortcuts import redirect

def myview(request):
    return redirect('/path')

It also takes an optional permanent=True keyword argument.

If you want to redirect a whole subfolder, the url argument in RedirectView is actually interpolated, so you can do something like this in urls.py:

from django.conf.urls.defaults import url
from django.views.generic import RedirectView

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^old/(?P<path>.*)$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/new_path/%(path)s')),
]

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The ?P<path> you capture will be fed into RedirectView. This captured variable will then be replaced in the url argument you gave, giving us /new_path/yay/mypath if your original path was /old/yay/mypath.

You can also do ….as_view(url='…', query_string=True) if you want to copy the query string over as well.

With Django version 1.3, the class based approach is:

from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, url
from django.views.generic import RedirectView

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^some-url/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/redirect-url/'), name='some_redirect'),
)

This example lives in in urls.py

Beware. I did this on a development server and wanted to change it later.

• Firefox 5 'caching' 301 redirects

I had to clear my caches to change it. In order to avoid this head-scratching in the future, I was able to make it temporary like so:

from django.views.generic import RedirectView

url(r'^source$', RedirectView.as_view(permanent=False, 
                                      url='/dest/')),