Mailing List Archive: Reducing redirects

Hi,

I think I have what is a pretty involved request for assistance. We have
a website with content that is decades old and has tens of thousands of
pages of content of the form /content/view/1234, where 1234 is the
Joomla article ID.

Joomla has since started using search-engine friendly URLs like
/news/article.html. Some years ago we created a script that translates
the older /content/view/1234 format to its /news/article.html
equivalent, but that introduces a redirect. Add to that other potential
redirects, like http to https, www to the non-www version, and it delays
the visitor's time to get to the article and impacting our SEO.

Is there a way to consolidate all of these redirects into a fewer
number? This site is proxied behind cloudflare, if that makes a difference.

Here is an example:

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/117302/49

Here's what https://httpstatus.io/ says about the redirects that are
involved:

redirects

I also thought of creating a static table of every possible
/content/view/1234 article to their /news/article.html as RewriteRules,
but there are tens of thousands of these - enough that it would probably
impact performance of every request.

dave

You could consider creating a static table using RewriteMap:
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/rewritemap.html
Rather than first doing http to https and www to non-www, consider adding
the RewriteMap in the http- and www-vhosts that you have and redirecting to
the final URL straight from there. That will save you some redirects. Then
just do the fallback to https and/or non-www after the RewriteRules. Also,
if you're already redirecting from http to https, what's stopping you from
doing the redirect to non-www directly? You could do "http to www or
non-www redirects to https non-www" in a single step.

Gillis

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 5:40?AM Dave Wreski
<dwreski@guardiandigital.com.invalid> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think I have what is a pretty involved request for assistance. We have a
> website with content that is decades old and has tens of thousands of pages
> of content of the form /content/view/1234, where 1234 is the Joomla article
> ID.
>
> Joomla has since started using search-engine friendly URLs like
> /news/article.html. Some years ago we created a script that translates the
> older /content/view/1234 format to its /news/article.html equivalent, but
> that introduces a redirect. Add to that other potential redirects, like
> http to https, www to the non-www version, and it delays the visitor's time
> to get to the article and impacting our SEO.
> Is there a way to consolidate all of these redirects into a fewer number?
> This site is proxied behind cloudflare, if that makes a difference.
>
> Here is an example:
>
> http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/117302/49
>
> Here's what https://httpstatus.io/ says about the redirects that are
> involved:
> [image: redirects]
>
> I also thought of creating a static table of every possible
> /content/view/1234 article to their /news/article.html as RewriteRules, but
> there are tens of thousands of these - enough that it would probably impact
> performance of every request.
>
> dave
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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