301 redirect for site hosted at github?

Question

Here\'s a Github repository of mine: https://github.com/n1k0/casperjs

There\'s a gh-pages branch to hold the project documentation, which is basically t

Answer 1

Manual layout method

If you don't feel like using https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-redirect-from it's easy to implement it yourself:

a.md:

---
layout: 'redirect'
permalink: /a
redir_to: 'http://example.com'
sitemap: false
---

_layouts/redirect.html based on Redirect from an HTML page :

  
  
  {% comment %}
    Don't use 'redirect_to' to avoid conflict
    with the page redirection plugin: if that is defined
    it takes over.
  {% endcomment %}
  
  


  
Redirecting...
  Click here if you are not redirected.
  

Now:

firefox localhost:4000/a

will redirect you to example.com.

Like this example, the redirect-from plugin does not generate 301s, only meta + JavaScript redirects.

We can verify what is going on with:

curl localhost:4000/a

Tested on GitHub pages v64, live demo at: https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli.github.io/tree/d783cc70a2e5c4d4dfdb1a36d518d5125071e236/r