Based on Django's built-in redirect app with some extras added. Starting point for this app was https://github.com/django/django/tree/master/django/contrib/redirects. Now with these extra features:
- Simple hit counter on each redirect rule
To get the latest stable release from PyPi
pip install django-redirect-plus
To get the latest commit from GitHub
pip install -e git+git:https://github.com/arteria/django-redirect-plus.git#egg=redirect_plus
Add redirect_plus to your INSTALLED_APPS
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...,
'django.contrib.redirects',
'redirect_plus',
)
Update your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES in your project settings
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
...
# 'django.contrib.redirects.middleware.RedirectFallbackMiddleware' , # <= comment this
'redirect_plus.middleware.RedirectFallbackMiddleware', # <= replace by /add this middleware
...
'redirect_plus.middleware.RedirectForceMiddleware', # <= add this to override specific URLs.
)
Don't forget to sync your database
./manage.py syncdb