Question

By default, Struts 2 “redirect” is a temporary redirect (302). This makes sense. However, for SEO purposes, I need to issue a permanent redirect (301). Is there an easy way to achieve this?

Answer 1

ServletRedirectResult has a statusCode that should work. Try setting the statusCode param on your redirect result. If you’re using the Conventions plugin, something like:

@Result(name="success", location="/foo", type="redirect", params={"statusCode", "301"})

or the old style:

<result name="success" type="redirect">
   <param name="location">/foo</param>
   <param name="statusCode">301</param>
</result>