Question

Let’s say i have a controller Articles and an action Search.

I have set the router configuration in routes.php like this:

Router::connect(
                 '/search/:search_term/*', 
                 array('controller' => 'articles', 'action' => 'search')
);

This way i can see the article titles containing ‘cakephp‘ in search results when i navigate to http://localhost/search/cakephp

But if i navigate to http://localhost/articles/search/cakephp i see the same results.

What i want is to be automatically redirected to

http://localhost/search/cakephp

when i navigate to

http://localhost/articles/search/cakephp

based on the configuration in routes.php.

Answer 1

you have to create .htaccess redirect for that you can’t do it with routes:

RewriteRule ^articles/search/(.+)$ /search/$1 [L,NC]

OK I found something but not quite sure it will work:

Router::redirect(
    '/articles/search/*',
    '/search/',
    array('persist' => true)
);