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301 redirections when migrating from Wordpress to Ghost

I want to migrate my WP blog to ghost, the permalinks have the same slug (/blogWP.com/title-article and blogGhost.com/title-article) but I still have pages such as blog.com/category for instance to redirect.

Is there any way to make 301 redirections in Ghost as I would do in a .htaccess file ?

Thx !

Solution

  • It's possible to redirect through ghost itself directly, but you need to alter the core. Though I'm not sure it's the perfect or proper way.

    open core/server/errorHandling.js

    find this line:

    error404: function (req, res, next) {

    Add below:

    res.status(301); 
res.set({'Location': 'http://your-new-wordpress-blog-url'+req.url});
res.send('301','Not found');

    This way, Instead of showind 404s, I redirect to my wordpress' new domain (http://your-new-wordpress-blog-url in the example)

    This way, www.ghost.url/not-a-valid-page will redirect to http://your-new-wordpress-blog-url/not-a-valid-page instead of showing the Ghost's 404 page.

    p.s: This redirects, but I'm not 100% sure the headers are correct, I'd appreciate if someone else would clarify.