Redirects.json not sending parameters in redirect

Developer help
1

Hello,

Ghost Version : Latest, updated just before trying redirects
Host : DigitalOcean Droplet

I’ve recently started a project where I need to redirect links from my site to external links, but the redirect does not include the parameters that I am including. Here is my redirects.json :
[ { "from": "/ref/offer-name-here", "to": "https://www.external-site.com/products/product-name-here?ref=reference-name-here", "permanent": true } ]

Anything after the ? does not send. It just sends to the link :
https://www.external-site.com/products/product-name-here

Is there a way to include the reference parameter?

2

This isn’t possible at the moment because of this outstanding issue:

3

This appears to have been closed as completed in github. However, this redirect is not working for me:

{
        "from": "\/search?q=([a-z0-9-+]+)",
        "to": "/search/$1/",
        "permanent": true
 }

Any request to /search with a q querystring is redirected to /search/.

NOTE: ‘search’ is used by the tag taxonomy:

taxonomies:
  tag: /search/{slug}/
  author: /author/{slug}/

Have I misread something?

4

The referenced issue is slightly different from your case.

In the referenced issue:

“I want to redirect /from to /to. When this happens, include all the query parameters - e.g. /from?ref=site should redirect to /to?ref=site”

Your issue:

“I want to redirect /from/?ref=site to /to/site”

As far as I’m aware the redirects feature only supports URL pathname matching, meaning the query parameter is ignored.

5

A workaround for this problem would be to make an .hbs file that contains some javascript that does the redirect you want, and then use routes.yaml to make /search go to that .hbs page. Use javascript to get the query parameters and then redirect the user to the correct /search/param page.

6

Hi,

I’m confused. I made a YAML doc with this in it:

301:
/permanent-redirect-from: /untitled
/permanent-redirect-from-2: /big-tech-not-equal-good-or-safe

It’s not working. What did I do wrong?

7

The directions given in the tutorial on Ghost.org stink and make no sense.

8

When using YAML, you’ll need to ensure the formatting is correct. The spacing is essential. Is your file formatted like this?

301:
  /permanent-redirect-from: /untitled
  /permanent-redirect-from-2: /big-tech-not-equal-good-or-safe
9

And just to be clear… you’re saying in your example at you want to redirect FROM permanent-redirect-from TO untitled. So you have a page/post on your site at {yoursitename}/untitled , right?