-- | Module used for generating HTML redirect pages. This allows renaming pages
-- to avoid breaking existing links without requiring server-side support for
-- formal 301 Redirect error codes
module Hakyll.Web.Redirect
( Redirect (..)
, createRedirects
) where
import Control.Applicative ((<$>))
import Control.Monad (forM_)
import Data.Binary (Binary (..))
import Hakyll.Core.Compiler
import Hakyll.Core.Identifier
import Hakyll.Core.Routes
import Hakyll.Core.Rules
import Hakyll.Core.Writable (Writable (..))
-- | This function exposes a higher-level interface compared to using the
-- 'Redirect' type manually.
--
-- This creates, using a database mapping broken URLs to working ones, HTML
-- files which will do HTML META tag redirect pages (since, as a static site, we
-- can't use web-server-level 301 redirects, and using JS is gross).
--
-- This is useful for sending people using old URLs to renamed versions, dealing
-- with common typos etc, and will increase site traffic. Such broken URLs can
-- be found by looking at server logs or by using Google Webmaster Tools.
-- Broken URLs must be valid Haskell strings, non-URL-escaped valid POSIX
-- filenames, and relative links, since they will be defined in a @hakyll.hs@
-- and during generation, written to disk with the filename corresponding to the
-- broken URLs. (Target URLs can be absolute or relative, but should be
-- URL-escaped.) So broken incoming links like which
-- should be cannot be fixed (since you cannot
-- create a HTML file named @"foo/"@ on disk, as that would be a directory).
--
-- An example of a valid association list would be:
--
-- > brokenLinks =
-- > [ ("projects.html", "http://github.com/gwern")
-- > , ("/Black-market archive", "Black-market%20archives")
-- > ]
--
-- In which case the functionality can then be used in `main` with a line like:
--
-- > version "redirects" $ createRedirects brokenLinks
--
-- The 'version' is recommended to separate these items from your other pages.
--
-- The on-disk files can then be uploaded with HTML mimetypes
-- (either explicitly by generating and uploading them separately, by
-- auto-detection of the filetype, or an upload tool defaulting to HTML
-- mimetype, such as calling @s3cmd@ with @--default-mime-type=text/html@) and
-- will redirect browsers and search engines going to the old/broken URLs.
--
-- See also .
createRedirects :: [(Identifier, String)] -> Rules ()
createRedirects redirects =
forM_ redirects $ \(ident, to) ->
create [ident] $ do
route idRoute
compile $ makeItem $! Redirect to
-- | This datatype can be used directly if you want a lower-level interface to
-- generate redirects. For example, if you want to redirect @foo.html@ to
-- @bar.jpg@, you can use:
--
-- > create ["foo.html"] $ do
-- > route idRoute
-- > compile $ makeItem $ Redirect "bar.jpg"
data Redirect = Redirect
{ redirectTo :: String
} deriving (Eq, Ord, Show)
instance Binary Redirect where
put (Redirect to) = put to
get = Redirect <$> get
instance Writable Redirect where
write path = write path . fmap redirectToHtml
redirectToHtml :: Redirect -> String
redirectToHtml (Redirect working) =
"" ++
"Permanent Redirect