Announcing: Global Redirect Module

Oct

2006

Submitted by Nick on Sun, 8th Oct 2006, 00:04 and has been commented on 3 times.

Tagged in Announcement, Drupal & Programming

Well its nearly 1am - but I've just submitted by very first Drupal module to the community

http://drupal.org/project/globalredirect

Basically, if you have an alias for a node then it will redirect you to the alias if you try to access the node directly… The best example is the site it was designed for. At Sportbusiness.com you could access a news story by:

http://www.sportbusiness.com/node/160374

However if you try that on sportbusiness.com, this module picks up that node/160374 actually has an alias attached to it and you will automatically be whisked away to that aliased URL, in this case:

http://www.sportbusiness.com/news/160374/london-2012-appoints-head-of…

The reason I wanted to do this was because search engines such as Google DO NOT like duplicate pages (ie pages with different URL's but the same content). This could land you in the sandbox! However with this module, if google manages to find a link to node/123456 then wont see the same content as its aliased sister page, instead it will get permanently redirected (a 301 redirect)!

3 Comments

The most recent comment was on Mon, 21st May 2007, 21:22

Global redirect

Submitted by RichardP (not verified) on Mon, 5th Mar 2007, 03:54.

Hi
I have installed the Global Redirect in my modules folder but cannot see it anywhere to enable it. The nodes are still showing up as well.

I am presuming this is not self-executing?
Can you tell me what I need to do to enable your module :-)
Thank you for all your great work
Richard in Vancouver

Thanks for the comment

Submitted by Nick on Mon, 5th Mar 2007, 09:38.

It depends which version you installed - please open an issue in the Global Redirect queue located here: drupal.org/project/issues/globalredirect.

It could be that there is a bug in your version - if its V5, try the dev version - I may have done a bad commit on the official release which may mean it doesn't include a .info file.