collective.scriptedredirect 1.0

Python scripted redirects in Plone CMS

Contents

• Introduction

• Benefits

• Usage

• Scripting

• Internals

• Author

• 1.0 (2013-02-05)

Introduction

collective.scriptedredirect allows you to write HTTP 302 Moved Temporary and HTTP 301 Moved Permanently logic for your Plone CMS site with Python scripting.

Benefits

• The redirect logic is front-end web server independent (no need to learn Apache, Varnish or Nginx)

• Python allows to write more complex logic for redirects easier (no regular expressions!)

• Python scripts in Plone have access to more complete state information (user logged in status, permissions, etc.)

Usage

Add add-on in buildout.cfg:

eggs =
    ...
    collective.scriptedredirect

Run buildout.

Install Scripted redirects in Python in Site Setup > Add-ons.

Edit redirect_handler in Zope Management Interface.

In the case of accident use ?no_redirect HTTP query parameter to override the redirecter and fix your site.

Scripting

The redirect script takes input parameters

• url: full URL of the request

• host: www.yoursite.com

• port: 80, 443 or custom Zope port

• path: the path part of URL

Internals

collective.scriptedredirect hooks itself to Zope’s pre-traversal hook and is triggered before the request traverses into your Plone site in Zope application server.

Author

Mikko Ohtamaa Changelog =========

1.0 (2013-02-05)

• Initial development [miohtama]