New Add-on: Detour Pro
In short, Detour Pro gives you a GUI to manage your website redirects (301, 302, wildcards). It supports simple redirects (don’t get too fancy, cowboy) but that’s usually the kind that you need.
One thing I’d like to see is an option to turn on a layperson’s interface that masks the methods (301, etc) and just labels them as permanent, temporary, etc. The idea being that if you’re going to abstract .htaccess rules into a Control Panel interface, make it so people who have no idea what redirects are can use it. They just need to know that they want this old page to go to this new page. Boom. Done.
That being said, I like what I see with this add-on from Mike Hughes. Read the Detour Pro documentation for all the information about the add-on.
The add-on costs $22 from Devot-ee or you can buy a developer license for $100 and use it on unlimited sites. The developer license is only available from the Mike’s Cityzen website.
Posted on Feb 21, 2012 by Ryan Irelan
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Mike Hughes — 10:35 on 02.22.2012
Hey Ryan -
Thanks for the kind words and feature suggestion. I think it’s a great idea to have a simple interface as well as adding the “Detour To” as a select box instead of text input. Also on the roadmap is the ability to pull in redirects from a csv file so you don’t have to type them in one by one.
If anyone has any other ideas or comments, feel free to leave them here or at the Devot:ee page where I’m doing official support.
Chris — 14:06 on 02.22.2012
Is it reliant upon .htaccess files or will it work with nginx?
Mike Hughes — 14:07 on 02.22.2012
Chris, it works completely independent of .htaccess, all through EE. Hope that helps.
Ralph — 14:29 on 06.20.2012
Will this add a lot of overhead to EE if 100’s off redirects are set up in Detour Pro? Isnt htaccess faster?