Description
Context
I've started a book a couple of months ago, with a series of Rmd, let's say named chapter-lorem.Rmd, chapter-ipsum.Rmd.
This had generated a book, hosted on GitHub pages, at myuberbook.org/chapter-lorem.hml and myuberbook.org/chapter-ipsum.html.
My book has been read and shared on the internet, and potentially people have been sharing links to myuberbook.org/chapter-lorem.hml, but now I want to rename it to be myuberbook.org/lorem.hml.
Feature Request
It would be nice to have a native mechanism to do these redirects, in other words having a way to change the chapter URLs, while still keeping the old URL active with a redirect.
A native redirect would allow to:
- Keep old bookmarks and links "alive", i.e they are still usable
- Be better for SEO (google prefers finding a redirect than a dead link)
My current approach is to, after the book compilation, write a series of HTML files with in it :
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=lorem.hml" />
</head>
using
make_redirect <- function(from, to){
html <- sprintf(
'<head><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=%s.html" /></head>',
to
)
dest <- fs::path("_book", from, ext = "html")
fs::file_create(dest)
write(html, dest)
}
make_redirect("chapter-lorem", "lorem")
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