Custom Middleware for Django Redirect App

Default django redirect app middleware is not support url parameters. It will throw 404 error when URL have parameters.

This custom-redirect-middleware introduced to handle url parameters. So, this custom middleware will handle all the below cases with/without trailing slash in URL.

• URL with no parameters.

• URL with one parameter.

• URL with more than one parameter.

What this middleware actually do:

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• Simply separate URL parameters from full_absolute_path.

• Next get exact redirect_path of separated full_absolute_path form django.contrib.redirects database.

• Then append the URL parameters which separated from full_absolute_path is to redirect_path.

Steps to use custom redirect middleware :

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• Download custom redirect middleware custom redirect middleware

• Place inside your Django app.

• Replace 'django.contrib.redirects.middleware.RedirectFallbackMiddleware' or add bellow line in MIDDLEWARE of your settings.py.

Note that the order of MIDDLEWARE matters. Generally, you can put RedirectMiddleware at the end of the list, because it’s a last resort. Refer here.

'your_django_app_name.custom_redirect_middleware.CustomRedirectFallbackMiddleware'

Thats it.

Inspired by this stackoverflow question.