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Plugin Redirect

This plugin semi-permanently redirects any existing wiki page to any other specified wiki page or URL. If it's for wiki pages, a better alternative is the Semantic alias.

Page Alias redirects wiki pages which do not exist to ones that do.

Starting in version 3.0, it is bundled.

Usage

The redirect plugin usage is:

{REDIRECT(page=pagename) /}

or for URLs (tiki-something.php... or http://...)

{REDIRECT(url=url) /}

Note:

It does not check permissions of the destination page, so users may need to login after redirect.
It can redirect to a wiki page or to any URL, which is why there is Plugin security
There is no warning about "you will be redirected in 5 seconds message" or similar; it's instant!
There is a check to stop possible loops
URL redirects can be both: absolute starting with protocol like http:// or relative to the Tiki root

How to edit the redirect page?

Q:How do you go back to original page for editing...
A: Use /tiki-editpage.php?page=TheTargetPageWithTheRedirectPlugin

You can also go to the page history to view source, compare or unroll changes made that include the REDIRECT code. Use /tiki-pagehistory.php?page=TheTargetPageWithTheRedirectPlugin

Required parameters are in bold
Preferences required: wikiplugin_redirect

Parameters	Accepted Values	Description	Default	Since
page	pagename	Wiki page name to redirect to.
url	url	Complete URL, internal or external.
perspective	int	The ID of a perspective to switch to (requires feature_perspective).

Alias

Note about alternate syntax

There is a note in changelog.txt "redirect feature: if a page contains only #REDIRECT pagename, the page view will display the other page. redirect is interpreted only one time" but this doesn't work in 2.4 or 3.1 and will not be added because it would just complexify the wiki parser.