Question
How to redirect 301 on the Digital Ocean Apps platform
- Posted on December 11, 2020
- DigitalOcean App Platform
Asked by laurentiu
How are 301 redirects made for websites on the DO App platform?
I would like to redirect certain pages such as:
domain.com/my-old-page/ redirects to domain.com/my-new-page/
I should mention that the content is being generated with Hugo static site generator.
Thank you for your time.
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Feedback on this problem: I was about to move some static sites to DigitalOcean to see if App Platform might work for us, but not having a simple way to do redirects adds a lot of friction. Redirects for static sites are very simple (and free) on other platforms. I thought migrating was going to be a quick, simple task, but it’s turning into a larger project, so I’m staying with the other service for now, even though it’s slightly more expensive.
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We don’t currently offer the ability to configure arbitrary redirects, though it is functionality we are considering.
You could run nginx as a service within your application using a Dockerfile. We have an example nginx Dockerfile and configuration available in our sample repos at https://github.com/digitalocean/sample-nginx. To avoid unnecessary load, I recommend keeping your existing routes for the huge application, and add new routes to nginx just for the parts you want to proxy.
There is another similar discussion related to routes & redirects that you may want to read over as well:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-should-i-implement-proxying-and-redirects-on-the-app-platform
Let me know if you have any further questions!