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by qbasic_forever 1524 days ago
Is that coming back with a HTTP 200 response though and the made up HTML page? That doesn't seem right... at least, I dunno if google and such would actually index your page at the new URL vs. just thinking "huh weird looks like blog.eowyn.net is now called '301 Moved Permanently', better trash that down in the rankings".
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cptskippy 1524 days ago
It shows up as a proper 301 when I load up the URL in Firefox. The question is, how?
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MD87 1524 days ago
One of the Jekyll plugins that GH Pages supports[0] is jekyll-redirect-from, which lets you put a `redirect_to` entry in a page's front matter.

[0]: https://pages.github.com/versions/

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simonw 1523 days ago
I found this example of another repo that is using the same trick: https://github.com/kotokaze/kotokaze.github.io

    ~ % curl -i 'https://kotokaze.github.io/'
    HTTP/2 301 
    server: GitHub.com
    content-type: text/html
    permissions-policy: interest-cohort=()
    location: http://github.kotokaze.net/
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nobodywasishere 1523 days ago
For the latter, `<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=https://blog.eowyn.net/vhdlref" />` in the `<head>`
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qbasic_forever 1524 days ago
Wow, nice yeah I'd love to know how github supports configuring a URL to 301 redirect!
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