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I have a few 301 redirects setup on github pages $ curl https://nobodywasishere.github.io # moved to https://blog.eowyn.net <html> <head><title>30

I have a few 301 redirects setup on github pages $ curl https://nobodywasishere.github.io # moved to https://blog.eowyn.net <html> <head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head> <body> <center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center> <hr><center>nginx</center> </body> </html> $ curl https://blog.eowyn.net/vhdlref-jtd # moved to https://blog.eowyn.net/vhdlref <html> <head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head> <body> <center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center> <hr><center>nginx</center> </body> </html>

qbasic_forever 5y ago
Is that coming back with a HTTP 200 response though and the made up HTML page? That doesn't seem right... at least, I dunno if google and such would actually index your page at the new URL vs. just thinking "huh weird looks like blog.eowyn.net is now called '301 Moved Permanently', better trash that down in the rankings".
- cptskippy 5y ago
  It shows up as a proper 301 when I load up the URL in Firefox. The question is, how?
  - qbasic_forever 5y ago
    Wow, nice yeah I'd love to know how github supports configuring a URL to 301 redirect!
  - MD87 5y ago
    One of the Jekyll plugins that GH Pages supports[0] is jekyll-redirect-from, which lets you put a `redirect_to` entry in a page's front matter. [0]: https://pages.github.com/versions/ https://pages.github.com/versions/
    - simonw 5y ago
      I found this example of another repo that is using the same trick: https://github.com/kotokaze/kotokaze.github.io https://github.com/kotokaze/kotokaze.github.io ~ % curl -i 'https://kotokaze.github.io/' HTTP/2 301 server: GitHub.com content-type: text/html permissions-policy: interest-cohort=() location: http://github.kotokaze.net/
  - nobodywasishere 5y ago
    For the latter, `<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=https://blog.eowyn.net/vhdlref https://blog.eowyn.net/vhdlref" />` in the `<head>`
chabad360 5y ago
Yea, no. A 301 (or 302) redirect means setting the status code header to 301 and providing a location header with the place to redirect to. Last I checked GitHub doesn't allow any of this, or setting any other headers (like cache-control). To work around this, I've been putting cloudflare in front of my site which lets me use page rules to set redirects if necessary.

qbasic_forever 5y ago

Is that coming back with a HTTP 200 response though and the made up HTML page? That doesn't seem right... at least, I dunno if google and such would actually index your page at the new URL vs. just thinking "huh weird looks like blog.eowyn.net is now called '301 Moved Permanently', better trash that down in the rankings".

cptskippy 5y ago
It shows up as a proper 301 when I load up the URL in Firefox. The question is, how?
- qbasic_forever 5y ago
  Wow, nice yeah I'd love to know how github supports configuring a URL to 301 redirect!
- MD87 5y ago
  One of the Jekyll plugins that GH Pages supports[0] is jekyll-redirect-from, which lets you put a `redirect_to` entry in a page's front matter. [0]: https://pages.github.com/versions/ https://pages.github.com/versions/
  - simonw 5y ago
    I found this example of another repo that is using the same trick: https://github.com/kotokaze/kotokaze.github.io https://github.com/kotokaze/kotokaze.github.io ~ % curl -i 'https://kotokaze.github.io/' HTTP/2 301 server: GitHub.com content-type: text/html permissions-policy: interest-cohort=() location: http://github.kotokaze.net/
- nobodywasishere 5y ago
  For the latter, `<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=https://blog.eowyn.net/vhdlref https://blog.eowyn.net/vhdlref" />` in the `<head>`

chabad360 5y ago

Yea, no. A 301 (or 302) redirect means setting the status code header to 301 and providing a location header with the place to redirect to. Last I checked GitHub doesn't allow any of this, or setting any other headers (like cache-control). To work around this, I've been putting cloudflare in front of my site which lets me use page rules to set redirects if necessary.