Redirect a Lenya page to another URL

[Dan Stromberg-4]

What is a good (hopefully simple) way of redirecting a lenya page to
another page outside of lenya?

I've googled for a while, and just poked around in the GUI for a while,
but I didn't find much.

I tried putting a http-equiv="refresh" in with the source editor, but
that didn't seem to work - upon clicking save I'd get a long list of
messages about things being ignored, and no active submit button.

TIA!


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[Andreas Hartmann]

Hi Dan,

Dan Stromberg schrieb:
> What is a good (hopefully simple) way of redirecting a lenya page to
> another page outside of lenya?

there are basically two approaches:

1. Create a "redirect" resource type (maybe we should add this to the
repo since it seems to be a common usage scenario). This is quite
straightforward. The source could look for instance like this:

   <redirect xmlns="…" uri="http://www.foo.com"/>

You can edit the document with the source editor or write a simple
usecase to change the uri attribute. An XSLT transforms the source into
a <meta http-equiv="refresh"/> element.

2. In the upcoming version 2.0.2 it will be possible to assign external
URLs to sitetree nodes, so clicking on a navigation item will lead you
to an external page. This functionality is already used on the Lenya
website.

HTH,

-- Andreas


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Andreas Hartmann, CTO
BeCompany GmbH
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[Dan Stromberg-4]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:37:40 +0200, Andreas Hartmann wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> Dan Stromberg schrieb:
>> What is a good (hopefully simple) way of redirecting a lenya page to
>> another page outside of lenya?
>
> there are basically two approaches:
>
> 1. Create a "redirect" resource type (maybe we should add this to the
> repo since it seems to be a common usage scenario). This is quite
> straightforward. The source could look for instance like this:
>
>    <redirect xmlns="…" uri="http://www.foo.com"/>
>
> You can edit the document with the source editor or write a simple
> usecase to change the uri attribute. An XSLT transforms the source into
> a <meta http-equiv="refresh"/> element.

Thanks Andreas, but I'm afraid I don't know enough Lenya to get this done
based on what you've written.  I tried augmenting what you've written
with some google'ing, but I'm still not clear on what needs to be done.  
I know you're under no obligation to walk me through this, but I do hope
you'll take a moment to do so - it'd save me a lot of time.

Could someone please tell me like I'm a 2 year old, what steps I need to
take to forward a URL with Lenya using the source editor (not a use
case)?  Interesting as Lenya is, I don't think becoming a Lenya expert is
in my future - my employer's moving to something else.

What does it mean to create a redirect resource type?  How is it
accomplished?

Where in the source editor does the <redirect... go?

What's a suitable xmlns for redirecting from a Lenya (HTML) page to a non-
Lenya HTML page?

Thanks so much if someone has the time to spell this out.  FWIW, it'd
probably make a really good FAQ question, so if it's written up
thoroughly once it should get easier (less repetitive) from there.  I'd
be willing to summarize what I learn for the FAQ.



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