Product URL Redirects
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Redirects are often more complicated than: ''Send traffic to this URL over to this other URL.'' You often need business logic to make routing decisions for site migrations, promotional campaigns, and loyalty programs.
For example: Let’s assume the old site used a product sku in product-related URLs, but a revamped, new site uses a “tag” for SEO purposes.
Old url: www.example.com/sku/{product_sku}/*
New url: www.example.com/products/{product_tag}/*
E.g., sku is 483D5F; tag denotes straight-fit-denim-jeans
Old “reviews” url: www.example.com/sku/483D5F/reviews
New “reviews” url: www.example.com/products/straight-fit-denim-jeans/reviews
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Note the URL path changing from /sku/483D5F/reviews to products/straight-fit-denim-jeans/reviews
This example uses EdgeWorkers + EdgeKV to extract a query string product SKU from an incoming URL, match it against a SKU stored in a KV database, and properly redirect the browser to the new product page.
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