Comments on: Flexible external redirects in Plone: a brainstorm

By: Jon Stahl

Jon Stahl — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:19:39 +0000

@ILVC, I’m sorry this isn’t a good support forum for Redirection Tool; please see the plone-users list (http://plone.org/support/forums/general)

By: ILVC

ILVC — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:10:32 +0000

Hello Again! I tried version 1.2.1 on Plone 2.5.2 and it crashes the site! Documentation does not says to work exclusively with version 3.0 but guess I answered that one the hard way. I then tried version 1.1 since it works on Plone 2.1 it “should work” in 2.5.2 . It doesn’t no crash the site on installation but redirection simply does not work. I’ll try to have another test environment with Plone 3.0 and see what I can get.

By: ILVC

ILVC — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:18:24 +0000

Hi! I know I’m a little late into the discussion! I too am looking for solutions to let a user define a custom link, as Joel says and just found Redirector:http://plone.org/products/redirectiontool.
Doesn’t says anything about query string variables but at least it lets a user define multiple redirection links and thus aliases. In theory you can define http://somesite/a/long-descent/into/the-bowells-of said-site/prized-link to http://somesite/here-I-am .
Currently we have Plone 2.5.2 deployed and this product is compatible with both 2.1 and 3.0 so I hope it is compatible with 2.5.2 also. I’ll will test it and let you know as soon as I can.

By: Joel Davis

Joel Davis — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:16:08 +0000

I like it. I’ve often thought, it wouldn’t be very hard to setup something like tinyurl to run on your own web server. In Plone, there could be a “make custom link” item in the site setup control panel. The interface could be as simple as tinyurl’s front page (with the new alias feature). Just type a full url into a text box, type the alias into a second text box and hit “make it”. There would be one other button/link on the page: “administer custom links” (or whatever) that would display a grid with checkboxes and a “delete selected” button at the bottom.

Another thought: how about a variation of the link content type where the default view is a redirect? You could just put the “external alias link” wherever it belongs in the hierarchy of the site and when a visitor comes to that location, they’re immediately redirected to the external url.

By: Jon Stahl

Jon Stahl — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:18:16 +0000

Yes, maybe there’s a “both/and” approach. I’m most interested in making it easy to do simple variableization and, if possible, to have a dedicated subdomain.

By: David Glick

David Glick — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:05:33 +0000

I'm not convinced. Having placeful link objects with the improvement proposed in PLIP 126 is the easiest way to implement this without having to create new infrastructure (e.g. some skin-layer-esque abuse of the traversal machinery). And it has the advantage of making the namespace issue go away because you can't create link objects with the same id as another object.

Certainly we could add a centralized control panel to view and manage the links in a site, though. Then you could get a placeful or placeless view as desired.