Redirect - Even though redirect code is absolute its handled as relative

Question

On my search results page I am testing to see if there is only one result and if so redirecting the user to that result page using the redirect tag.

However, even though the path I am redirecting to is absolute it seems to be handled as relative.

For example - the path I am redirecting to:

http://myurl.com/path/to/page

Once the redirect is complete the address bar shows:

http://myurl.com/http://myurl.com/path/to/page

This does still show the right page content, but clearly isn't the right URL.

The code i am using is:

{redirect="{url_title_path='store/product'}"}. 

When placed into a template alone {url_title_path='store/product'} writes out myurl.com/path/to/page and indeed this very same tag works perfectly when applied to an anchor (a) tag.

Any advise on how to resolve this much appreciated.

Answer 1

Well, you shouldn't add the domain on redirect global variable.

{redirect='template_group/template_or_segment_2'}

So, your option is to try:

{redirect='store/product/{url_title}'}

I have to confess that I never tried to use three segments on redirect global variable.

Answer 2

Consider using the RedirectURL plug-in from Rodrigo Passos. It allows you to specify an entire absolute URL.

This would allow you to provide a URL in something like this: {exp:redirecturl url=“http://myurl.com/{channel_short_name}/{url_title}”}

Or if you're using page URIs: {exp:redirecturl url=“http://myurl.com{page_uri}”}

Find more information about RedirectURL on Devot-ee.

Doing this though, you may want to wrap your conditional in a {exp:ifelse} tag using Croxton's IfElse plug-in. That way you can be sure your condition isn't parsed after the plugin has already run.