redirects

Very mini-how-to for doing redirects with Aegir CMS 1.0 RC1

Because Midgard overrides the apache RedirectMatch directive, when using Aegir
one must create the equivalent funtionality.

Context for example:

trying to redirect all www.site.org/mailman/* requests
to lists.site.org/mailman/*

0. Login to Aegir as the admin user.

1. Create a new page (mailman) by clicking on the
   on www.site.org and then 'New' and then use the
   the 'Subpage' area to create a page called 'mailman'.

2. Set the newly created page to 'Active' by
   clicking on the page then 'Edit' then 'Details'.
   Set the 'Style:' to '/Empty(Shared)'.  For the
   'Authentication:' select 'active'.

3. Create a new page element under the 'mailman' page
   by clicking on the mailman page and then 'New' and
   then in the 'Page element' area enter the text 'code-init'.
   (four elements are called automatically by midgard in the
   following order: code-compat,code-global,code-init and ROOT.)

4. Click on the page-element and then 'Edit'. Add the following
   php code to the page-element
 
<?php
  
   $i = 0;
   $path = '/mailman';
   while ($i <= $argc)
   {
     $path = $path."/$argv[$i]";
     $i++;
   }
   header("location: http://lists.site.org$path");
   exit();
  
   ?>

   For more information about this step, please refer to
   http://www.midgard-project.org/manual/en/part.concepts.midgardserved.php


Conclusion

This will now mimic the effect of an apache RedirectMatch
that reads,

RedirectMatch /mailman(.*) http://lists.site.org/mailman$1