Redirects
The simple method for generating redirects from one page to another using the HTML Meta Tags.
Example
Creating the redirect from / to /docs to disable the landing page:
# content/redirect/index-to-docs.md
---
type: "redirect"
url: "/"
redirect_to: "/docs"
redirect_enabled: true
private: true
---Will generate an HTML file by a path according to a url parameter value with the following HTML code and replace /index.html file in the root site
directory:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Redirect</title>
<link rel="canonical" href="/docs"/>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=/redirect-here"/>
</head>
</html>Usage
Prepare
Create content/redirect directory and/or _index.md file if don’t exist
mkdir content/redirect
tee -a content/redirect/_index.md << EOF
---
private: true
outputs: ["html"]
draft: true
---
EOFCreate redirect
Add a new rule
Just run the following command:
hugo new redirect/my-redirect.md # Replace `my-redirect` with a (arbitrary) redirect nameThis command created the content/redirect/my-redirect.md file from the archetypes/redirect.md template
Or you can create a file manually:
cp archetypes/redirect.md content/redirect/my-redirect.mdEdit rule
Open the newly created file redirect/my-redirect.md in your editor and update the url and redirect_to fields in the front matter, like so:
---
type: "redirect"
url: "/hello"
redirect_to: "/docs/hello"
redirect_enabled: true
private: true
---