Redirect route cakephp

Need Help
1

sorry, my English so bad.

In CakePHP 2.x, I want to redirect old link to new link in my website. But i got some issue.

Example:

mywebsite.com/news/news redirect to mywebsite.com/news I use:

Router::redirect ('/news/news',
        array('controller' => 'categories', 'action' => 'index', 'slug' => 'news'),
        array('status' => '301')
    );
Router::connect('/news', array('controller' => 'categories', 'action' => 'index', 'slug' => 'news'));

=> OK, it work.

But

Example: mywebsite.com/news/news/a-b-c redirect to mywebsite.com/news/a-b-c

I use:

Router::redirect ('/news/events/:slug',
        array('controller' => 'articles', 'action' => 'view', 'category' => 'events'),
        array('status' => '301')
    );

Router::connect('/news/:slug',
            array('controller' => 'articles', 'action' => 'view', 'category' => 'news')
        );

=> result is: mywebsite.com/articles/view/category:news

Please help, thank you !

2

It sounds like you have a controller called news and you want the view action to be implied.

So: /news/view/article-a-b-c --> /news/article-a-b-c

I have had similar setups. If I have no other action I want to use for that controller, I simply reroute /news/* and call it a day.

If I have other actions I want to use, I choose one of two possible approaches:

  1. create an alias for the controller + view action pairing (say, ‘newsline’) then reroute /newsline/* to /news/view/

  2. reroute /news/* to /news/view/ regardless… then, setup exceptions inside the view controller:
    over-simplistic example:

    function view($uname,$arg=null) {
    if($uname==‘edit’) $this->edit($arg);
    }

3

it’ true. But more old link on my website like this ( mywebsite.com/news/news/article-alias ), so i want to redirect them to new link like this ( mywebsite.com/news/article-alias ).
But it’s not work with my code in routes.php:

Router::redirect ('/news/news/:slug',
        array('controller' => 'articles', 'action' => 'view', 'category' => 'news'),
        array('status' => '301')
    );

Router::connect('/news/:slug',
            array('controller' => 'articles', 'action' => 'view', 'category' => 'news')
        );

Sorry, i have some mistake in my question :slight_smile:

4

It’s not the most elegant solution, but you could create a news action inside your news controller that hands off the arguments to the action you actually want to use. At least that way your urls would continue to work correctly.

5

It’s good idea, but it’s not good for my website. Because my website have 2 type link mywebsite.com/news/article-alias and mywebsite.com/news/news/article-alias working.

So i think i use: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/routing.html#redirect-routing