Redirect from sources that are not Moodle URLs about moodle-tool_redirects HOT 6 CLOSED

I'm gonna reopen this and treat this as a documentation task to update the readme with an example of this

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hey @VOOM108
It should just work if https://campus.mymoodlesite.com/importantquiz is your moodle page that loads configs and has after_config callback fired, otherwise it's out of scope for that plugin sorry.

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If that page doesn't exist at all, but you have setup Moodle to be the handler for your error pages then this should all work.

The setup for this can be found here:

https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Error_pages

ie browser visits

/importantquiz

this doesn't exist and so nginx or apache routes this to the error page at:

/error/index.php

From this page the after_config hook fires and does the detection and then redirects to wherever you want it to based on config

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If that page doesn't exist at all, but you have setup Moodle to be the handler for your error pages then this should all work.

The setup for this can be found here:

https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Error_pages

ie browser visits

/importantquiz

this doesn't exist and so nginx or apache routes this to the error page at:

/error/index.php

From this page the after_config hook fires and does the detection and then redirects to wherever you want it to based on config

I added
ErrorDocument 404 /error/index.php
to the .htaccess and it did produce the Moodle error page instead of a simple server 404. However - the result with the redirect was not as expected...

#/importantquiz/#=>/mod/quiz/view.php?id=18

Translation: "404: file not found. An unexpected error has occured, because a non-existant page was called."

(In case that makes a difference: It is Moodle 4.1)

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Ok this was actually a surprisingly deep rabbit hole but this is now all implemented in #15

If I have test config like this:

#\/vanity#=>/my/

then I get a redirect:

brendan@catau-bri-laptop0372 05:30:17 ~ $ curl -kI https://master.localhost/vanity
HTTP/1.1 303 See Other
...
X-Redirect-By: Moodle /admin/tool/redirects/classes/helper.php:119
Location: https://master.localhost/my/

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One caveat is that if you are using nginx then the error pages must be setup like this:

error_page 403 = /error/index.php

and not just like below (the moodle wiki was not like this and is now corrected)

error_page 403 /error/index.php

https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Error_pages

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