301 redirections when migrating from Wordpress to Ghost

Question

I want to migrate my WP blog to ghost, the permalinks have the same slug (/blogWP.com/title-article and blogGhost.com/title-article) but I still have pages such as blog.com/category for instance to redirect.

Is there any way to make 301 redirections in Ghost as I would do in a .htaccess file ?

Thx !

Answer 1

It's possible to redirect through ghost itself directly, but you need to alter the core. Though I'm not sure it's the perfect or proper way.

open core/server/errorHandling.js

find this line:

error404: function (req, res, next) {

Add below:

res.status(301); 
res.set({'Location': 'http://your-new-wordpress-blog-url'+req.url});
res.send('301','Not found');

This way, Instead of showind 404s, I redirect to my wordpress' new domain (http://your-new-wordpress-blog-url in the example)

This way, www.ghost.url/not-a-valid-page will redirect to http://your-new-wordpress-blog-url/not-a-valid-page instead of showing the Ghost's 404 page.

p.s: This redirects, but I'm not 100% sure the headers are correct, I'd appreciate if someone else would clarify.

Answer 2

I'm sorry, but there is currently no way to do redirects with Ghost.

The best way to do redirects is to use a proxy server (recommended) and do the redirects there. For Apache you could use .htaccess files and nginx offers HttpRewriteModule.

Answer 3

My ghost blog is a subdirectory /blog/ runing with NGINX. I needed to redirect old wordpress urls /blog/category/post-title to /blog/post-title

Except for /blog/ghost/.., /blog/tag/.., /blog/author/.., /blog/post-title/amp/.

So I came with that rewrite rule : rewrite ^/blog/(?:(?!ghost|tag|author).).*/(?:(?!amp))(.+)$ /blog/$1 permanent;