Wait what... URL redirect rules for Community pages, I had to read this twice and thrice. My team will be very pleased but likely not as pleased as Khoros support who get a couple requests a week to add redirects so i'm very pleased to see this added, couple questions:

1. Will all existing redirects added by support be listed within Admin allowing us to edit them rather than adding another redirect?
2. Is there a search feature, i have thousands of redirects already active in the system, search would be super helpful, if not can we dump a list of all redirects from admin, i know support can provide this historically 
3. Can the FROM and TO points be any page in community? One of the limitations of promoted search is that it's locked to "content" but i have lots of custom pages which im unable to feature in search ;( will this allow me to redirect any path or any other path, providing im not creating an infinite loop 😛 
4. Does it have any rules in place to protect against numptys, obviously i'll only be grating access to approved users but we all make mistakes, will it prevent creating loops or adding multiple redirects from the same place. 

Thanks for adding this feature as i say will likely save support a lot of work but also makes life a little easier not having to use cases for a simple redirect.

Hi Fellsteruk 

Hope you will like the feature. 😊

Herein, are the answers to your questions:

1. Will all existing redirects added by support be listed within Admin allowing us to edit them rather than adding another redirect?

No, all the existing redirects will not be listed in the Admin. With this feature, you can create new redirect rules. However, please note that if you wish to change an existing redirect rule (that was previously created), you will have to delete that first and create a new one in the Admin. This is a limitation right now.

2. Is there a search feature, i have thousands of redirects already active in the system, search would be super helpful, if not can we dump a list of all redirects from admin, i know support can provide this historically 

Presently, we do not have a search feature for the rules. We wanted to understand the number of rules created by Admins and provide “search” functionality accordingly. But we have it in our backlog.

3. Can the FROM and TO points be any page in community? One of the limitations of promoted search is that it's locked to "content" but i have lots of custom pages which im unable to feature in search ;( will this allow me to redirect any path or any other path, providing im not creating an infinite loop 😛 

Yes, FROM and TO can be from any community page. But we do have checks where we do not allow nested loops to get created. 

4. Does it have any rules in place to protect against numptys, obviously i'll only be grating access to approved users but we all make mistakes, will it prevent creating loops or adding multiple redirects from the same place. 

There are not any specific rules that can protect against numptys, as such. 🙂 However, we have delete functionality. If ever you feel that rule is created by mistake, it can be deleted in a jiffy and redirection will be reversed instantly. Further, we do have checks in place to avoid nested loops. 

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks

Great news about self-managed redirects! 

Hi miles 

Currently, we focussed on allowing community specific redirects. But yes, we do have a feature of allowing external redirects in our backlog.

Hope you like the feature.

Thanks

I'll just echo Fellsteruk with all the questions/thoughts they had about redirects - really exciting stuff!

This is a good update, well done Khoros team 🙂 

I have the same questions as Fellsteruk as well as a slight extension - can we setup redirects that point outside of community, or only to another piece of community content or page within the community?

There are some things we'd want to redirect people to other parts of our website (outside community).

Hey Terore, 

Correct the platform does auto manage alias pretty well but lets say you have two TKB's and you decide to merge them or replace them with something that isnt a TKB? Alias wont fix this, it may work for one but the other would need a redirect. 

Another example, lets say you want to print a url on your welcome pack or box of some equipment which is essentially a TKB or other page in your community:

www.yourdomain.com/t5/Khoros-Communities-Release-Notes/Khoros-Communities-20-8-Release-Notes/bc-p/606781#M1726

That dont look too great however the following does:

www.yourdomain.com/setupguide

Over the years ive also decommissioned several websites, moved their content and pushed them to our help site "khoros" adding redirect along the way to support, granted a lot of them wont be used any more as google should pick up on the 301 and update it's index. We use the platform pretty extensively for content outside of the basic interaction styles and this is very welcome. 

Glad everyone is excited about the redirect rules feature. More details on this feature are in the main docs.

Consolidating answers to some of the questions above.

• Will all existing redirects added by support be listed within Admin allowing us to edit them rather than adding another redirect?
  No, additionally any previously defined redirect rules will override redirect rules created in the Admin console. You must open a Support ticket to have any previously defined rules removed before your Admin console redirects will be effective.
• Is there a search feature, i have thousands of redirects already active in the system, search would be super helpful, if not can we dump a list of all redirects from admin, i know support can provide this historically 
  No, this is not available via the Admin screen. You can open a Support ticket to get this list. 
• Can the FROM and TO points be any page in community?
  Yes, any page on your community
• Does it have any rules in place to protect against numptys, obviously i'll only be grating access to approved users but we all make mistakes, will it prevent creating loops or adding multiple redirects from the same place. 
  No, there is no logic to test this while creating the rules at this time. You might want to suggest this idea.
• Can we setup redirects that point outside of community, or only to another piece of community content or page within the community?
  No, at this time redirects are limited to within the community.

Hope this helps.

Not at all 🙂 was just trying to share the way we use it 🙂 

miles  Very good shout out!!!! You can do this today with a redirect via support so i'd like to think so but i think the answer is NO. 

Just had a look at the screenshot above and it says that the host name must be removed from the source and destination so it appears you're only allowed to enter the page path after the domain which means you're unable to push any traffic off the platform via this feature. 

That is a shame as i do this often for some of our other websites, but it can be achieved with a support ticket