Can you use the Rules engine to set up 301 directs?

massad 65

Trying to figure out the best way to set up 301 redirects.

I see on the CDN there is a rules engine with 301 redirect options. However, I tried a few settings that I though made sense and the redirects aren't working.

Can you show me an example of how to set up a 301 redirect using the Rules? I'm trying to 301 redirect /en/home/ to /en/

Site is clearblueionizer.com

Thanks!

VenkateshDodda-MSFT 19,631 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-10-19T04:29:16.9+00:00

Hello @massad ,

Following up to see if you have a chance to check my previous response and help us with us requested information to assist you further on this.

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VenkateshDodda-MSFT 19,631 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-10-16T11:59:44.26+00:00
@massad Thanks for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A, apologize for any inconvenience caused on this.

Based on your earlier Posted questions here in this forum, I am assuming that you are still working with Wordpress on App Service and trying to configure some redirect rule in the CDN profile that got created while deploying this Word press image.

To test/reproduce this behavior, I have created two sample pages /testing-page-to-check-user-issue another page /child-item/ and added /testing-page-to-check-user-issue as parent.

When I make a request to path

https://<cdnName>-endpoint.azureedge.net/testing-page-to-check-user-issue/child-item/ the request should be re-directed to https://<cdnName>-endpoint.azureedge.net/testing-page-to-check-user-issue/

To achieve this, I have created the below rule in rule engine as shown below.

Here are the values passed to RequestURL and Path parameters.

RequestURL: testing-page-to-check-user-issue/child-item Path: /testing-page-to-check-user-issue/ HostName: https://<CDNName>-endpoint.azureedge.net

I have tested this it is working fine and I would request you to validate from your end.

Feel free to reach back to me if you have any further questions on this.
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massad 65 Reputation points

2023-10-16T15:15:46.3233333+00:00

This works for me, but it's not exactly what I need. I want to do 301 redirect on my custom domain:

clearblueionizer.com/en/home > redirects to > clearblueionizer.com/en/

The redirects only seem to work on the Azure CDN Endpoint domain URLs. How do I make a 301 redirect on my main custom domain URL?

VenkateshDodda-MSFT 19,631 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-10-17T07:49:51.8666667+00:00

@massad Thanks for your follow-up questions on this.

I see you have attached the custom domain to app service but if you have an CDN and your users will be accessing the site using the custom domain shouldn't be attaching the custom domain to CDN instead of app service?
Is there are any reason why you are not attaching the custom domain to CDN.

massad 65 Reputation points

2023-10-19T15:34:10.6133333+00:00

I tried attaching the www domain to the CDN but only the home page works. All of the other links on the page are set to the Azure default <my-site>.azurewebsites.net. So this does not work for me. I am using the CDN for storage and that's working fine, but can't seem to get my www custom domain to show up properly unless I point it using a CNAME to the Azure App URL.

VenkateshDodda-MSFT 19,631 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-10-23T08:34:23.3133333+00:00

@massad Apologize for the delay in my response.

WordPress site is being hosted on Linux, it's using the new PHP 8 blessed image, which uses nginx as webserver in place of Apache. In that instance, web.config doesn't apply. However, this blog post 1is a good place to start in how make rewrite rules for nginx.

massad 65 Reputation points

2023-10-23T12:15:31.8266667+00:00

I did figure out how to use the nginx configuration for URL changes. However, when I started redirecting the azurewebsites.net domain, that broke the CDN and the Health Check. I figured out a way to fix the Health Check but the CDN always needs an origin so there will always have to be a non root domain for the site.

I have posted another question about how Yoast is picking up the azurewebsites.net domain so hopefully someone can help me out there. Because google picked it up and changed all urls to the azurewebsites.net url.

VenkateshDodda-MSFT 19,631 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-10-23T12:55:23.18+00:00

massad Thanks for your response. I hope the provided suggestions has helped you in configuring 301 redirect on CDN using rule engine. I have converted my comment to Answer.

Please accept as Yes if the answer provided is useful, so that you can help others in the community looking for remediation for similar issues.

massad 65 Reputation points

2023-10-23T13:26:46.7066667+00:00

The way that I solved this was to use a 301 redirect plugin in WordPress. I still haven’t figured out how to use the root domain with the CDN
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