Rails - Oct 2005 - Setting http code 301 on certain pages

Hi

I''m currently redoing a site using RoR. The current site has a number
of pages in the form of x.php, and have set them up in using routes to
reflect the new urls. However, I''d like Google to start indexing the
new url structure so that I can eventually move away from this.
Therefore, when a http client accesses the any of the old pages
(x.php) I''d like to return a 301. Using redirect_to returns a 302
(temporary redirect), and provides no way to alter the status code
returned.

Does anyone have an easy way of doing this? I''ve tried Googling around
but can''t find anything that really relates to this.

Thanks,
Luke

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On Oct 29, 2005, at 6:45 AM, Luke Randall wrote:
> I''m currently redoing a site using RoR. The current site has a
number
> of pages in the form of x.php, and have set them up in using routes to
> reflect the new urls. However, I''d like Google to start indexing
the
> new url structure so that I can eventually move away from this.
> Therefore, when a http client accesses the any of the old pages
> (x.php) I''d like to return a 301. Using redirect_to returns a 302
> (temporary redirect), and provides no way to alter the status code
> returned.
Unfortunately, redirect_to doesn''t let you pick from the variety of  
redirect statuses; however, the underlying response.redirect takes a  
permanently flag as its second parameter, so you can do:
   response.redirect(named_route_url(:action => ''foo''),
true)
to get a 301 status.

This is ugly and undercuts the usefulness of redirect_to, though.   
Please post an enhancement request to http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ 
newticket.

Thanks,
jeremy
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Thanks Jeremy

I''ve submitted it - http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/2649.

Luke

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On Oct 29, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Luke Randall wrote:
> Thanks Jeremy
>
> I''ve submitted it - http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/2649.
What was I thinking!  There is another way:

   redirect_to whatever_url
   headers[''Status''] = ''301 Moved
Permanently''

Best,
jeremy
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> What was I thinking!  There is another way:
>
>    redirect_to whatever_url
>    headers[''Status''] = ''301 Moved
Permanently''
Lol, okay well that does the trick. Thanks a lot. Will close the bug.

Luke