Adding redirects for your website links.
- Navigate to the “Domains” section of your website in Bullet dashboard.
- Scroll down to the re-directs section and fill in your old and new URL details
- Next Click on the “Add Redirect” button and click save.
Understanding the redirect types, rules and formats:
Redirect Types.
- Static Redirect: A simple URL to URL redirect without any dymamic values.
- Dymanic Redirects: A complex URL where you can use dynamic values instead of adding 10s or 100s of static redirects.
Supported redirect formats.
| Feature | Old Path | New Path | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redirects | /home | / | 302 is used as the default status code. |
| Splats | /blog/* | /blog/en/:splat | Refer to Splats. |
| Placeholders | /blog/:year/:month/:date/:slug | /news/:year/:month/:date/:slug | See Placeholders |
| Force | /pagethatexists | /otherpage | Redirects are always followed, regardless of whether or not an asset matches the incoming request. |
Rules:
- If there are multiple redirects for the same source path, the top most redirect is applied.
- Redirects happen before headers, so if a request matches rules in both files, redirect will win out
- Static redirects need to be added first and then the dynamic redirects.
- A project can have a maximum of 2,000 static redirects and 100 dynamic redirects for a total of 2,100 redirects.
- Each redirect declaration has a 1,000-character limit.
Splats
On matching, a splat (asterisk, *) will greedily match all characters. You may only include a single splat in the URL.
The matched value can be used in the redirect location with :splat.
Placeholder
A placeholder can be defined with :placeholder_name
- The colon indicates the start of a placeholder, and the name that follows may be composed of alphanumeric characters and underscores, :\w+.
- A placeholder with a given name can only be used once in the URL. Placeholders match all characters apart from the delimiter, which: when part of the host, is a period or a forward-slash; and when part of the path, is a forward-slash.
- The matched value can similarly be used in the redirect location with
:placeholder_name. By doing this, it allows for greater flexibility and usability for both users and developers.
Unsupported Redirects
The following redirects are not supported. Make sure to not use any of these.
| Feature | Old Path | New Path |
|---|---|---|
| Query Parameters | /shop?id=:id | /blog/:id |
| Rewrites (other status codes) | /blog/* | /blog/404.html |
| Proxying | /blog/* | https://blog.my.domain/:splat |
| Domain-level redirects | http://workers.example.com/* | http://workers.example.com/blog/:splat 301 |
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