Expose option to avoid creating redirect files

[zenorocha]

[thesec]

Not sure if that is what @zenorocha intended as well but am looking for a way to prevent the redirect and render the actual contents within the index.html pages ...

[balupton]

@thesec not sure what you're use case is, but the reason why this isn't done, is that it would destroy SEO though, as you would have a bunch of files with the same content...

[balupton]

I think what @zenorocha was after is the ability to not create these files at all. @zenorocha can you pease elaborate?

[thesec]

Without knowing the use case that is a very flat answer, especially adding in such a wide field such as SEO ...

That said, the use case is that I am adding prefixes to the docs that are used to determine their navigation order but that I do not want to show up in URLs and am not linking to (for SEO reasons if you will ...).

[RobLoach]

On a layout basis, allow cleanurls: false?

[balupton]

This is now possible with v2.7.0. Set the following in your docpad configuration file:

environments:
    static:
        plugins:
            cleanurls:
                static: false

If you'd like to turn off clean urls completely (not just the redirect files) for the static env, use this:

environments:
    static:
        plugins:
            cleanurls:
                enabled: false

Happy to re-open if still an issue.

[balupton]

@RobLoach cleanurls: false meta-data is a great idea as well. Let's add that. I'll create an issue now.

[StudioLE]

@balupton
I'm currently using DocPad with cleanurls plugin to generate a static website with SEO friendly, semantic urls such as parent/child (achieved by the file: parent/child/index.html).

However I have no need for the parent/child.html redirect file that is created by cleanurls at: parent/child.html and I don't want to resort to manually deleting the file each time..

is there a config option:

plugins:
    cleanurls:
        redirectFile: false

Which will generate to parent/child/index.html but not create the parent/child.html file?

As I understand it that is what this issue is about however the proposed solution:

environments:
    static:
        plugins:
            cleanurls:
                static: false

Seems to remove the cleanurls functionality completely?

[simbo]

@balupton
I'm experiencing the same issues as @iSpyCreativity and probably also @zenorocha initially.

I want to use DocPad only to generate static files, not to act as a server and perform redirects. Therefore i'm using static: true or else cleanurls won't change anything.

I'm using datefromfilename, dateurls and cleanurls to generate blog posts from src/render/posts/2014-11-16-foo-bar.html.md to out/2014/03/foo-bar/index.html

This works great so far but docpad and/or cleanurls also write all those redirect files, which are never used/linked and imho not needed in this usecase.

out/posts/2014-11-16-foo-bar/index.html
out/posts/foo-bar/index.html
out/posts/foo-bar.html

I created a fork of cleanurls, introducing a new plugin option staticRedirectFile, which is true by default and only affects when static is also true. When set to false, all those redirection files will not be written or removed.

https://github.com/simbo/docpad-plugin-cleanurls/tree/no-redirection-files

[balupton]

I'm no longer interested in programming, someone else will need to take this.

[simbo]

Ok...
Maybe you can reopen the issue so others take notice. Thanks.