Setting Up Dynamic HTTP Redirects with Statamic v3

• Create the blueprint
• Create the layout file
• Create the collection
• Add your redirects!

You can use Statamic's redirect tag plus a custom blueprint to setup dynamic HTTP redirects on your Statamic website.

Let's say you're building a CMS for a client, and they need the ability to create redirects on the fly, eg:

1'/some-old-slug' => '/new-slug'

We can do this using Statamic's redirect tag. The premise is essentially:

• Create a blueprint that has a single field which we'll input our destination URL into
• We create a new layout file that only has a redirect tag in it
• Create a collection to store the redirects for the site
• The slug of each redirect entry will be the "from" URL

#Create the blueprint

First, we need to create the blueprint. Here's what I am using:

 1title: Redirect
 2sections:
 3  main:
 4    display: Main
 5    fields:
 6      -
 7        handle: redirect_location
 8        field:
 9          characterlimit: 0
10          type: text
11          localizable: false
12          display: 'Redirect URL'
13          validate: required

#Create the layout file

Next, we need to create a new layout file. The location of this file depends on your site setup, but for me, the file goes in resources/views/redirect.antlers.html:

1{{ redirect to="{{ redirect_location }}" }}

#Create the collection

Finally, we need to create the collection for the redirect entries. Feel free to use the Control Panel to do this. I'll post my collection's YAML file for reference:

1title: Redirects
2route: '{slug}'
3layout: redirect
4blueprints:
5  - redirect
6revisions: false
7sort_dir: desc

#Add your redirects!

That's it! Now you can create as many redirects as your heart desires! Here's a file showing how I redirect /rss to /feed:

 1 
 2---
 3 
 4title: RSS
 5entry: 65ede336-9f41-4b20-bae3-cd3cd9435d24
 6updatedby: 197c1509-8dff-4d72-9898-334084519619
 7updatedat: 1578797584
 8redirect_location: /feed
 9id: f358bf66-3972-4800-864f-aa42eeb7aee4
10 
11---

Test it out: /rss should take you to /feed

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