Question

I am back for advice. I have a site that needs SEO help and have been asked to ad a 301 redirect. This site is a convertion to django from php I gather. Now I have been given a csv of about 700 URL’s all basically of

http://www.rhodeislandrow.com/floor-plans/search/?sort=price_desc&floor=—&max_price=1304&min_price=0&csrfmiddlewaretoken=3688d94aa3454e592f016d032a126328&availability=1322629596

Well I decided after research that I needed to do a from django.views.generic.simple import redirect_to work around. But playing with this, it’s not working. Can any one help me with a pointer on what to use? I have read the docs here:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/request-response/#django.http.HttpResponsePermanentRedirect

and here are my URL’s:

from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, include, url
from django.contrib import admin
from django.views.generic.simple import direct_to_template
from django.views.generic.simple import redirect_to
from main.sitemaps import sitemaps
from main.views import *
admin.autodiscover()



urlpatterns = patterns('',
    # Redirects from old site
    (r'^floor-plans/search/$', redirect_to, {'url': 'http://www.rhodeislandrow.com/floor-plans/'}),

    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
    url(r'^subscribe/$', SubscribeView, name='subscribe'),
    url(r'^vaultware-template/$', VaultwareTemplateView.as_view()),

    url(r'^', include('stateful.urls')),
    url(r'^', include('cms.urls')),
    (r'^sitemap\.xml$', 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap', {'sitemaps': sitemaps}),
    (r'^robots.txt$', include('robots.urls')),
)

Answer 1

I figured it out. Because my URL’s are not ending in /search/ I needed to add the wildcard

(r'^floor-plans/search/.*$', redirect_to, {'url': 'http://www.rhodeislandrow.com/floor-plans/'}),

Thanks for the responses and I will use the redirect app for future projects.