amazeelabs/silverback_cdn_redirect

Provide redirect information to CDNs.

2.2.9 2024-09-26 08:16 UTC

Requires

• cweagans/composer-patches: ^1.7.3

GPL-2.0+

README

To be used with static websites, hosted on a CDN (e.g. Gatsby and Netlify). Solves two problems:

1. Can resolve redirects that are not stored in CDN config, which is necessary, since Drupal's redirect module creates a redirect for each path change, which can be a lot. In that case, the redirect is resolved by rewriting the request to Drupal.
2. Rewrite paths not know by the CDN, to client-side rendered pages. Useful for pages that should not be rendered statically.

Flowchart!

Drupal config

• Patch Drupal with a patch from #2741939
• Enable the module
• Set the settings, for example:

  drush cset silverback_cdn_redirect.settings base_url https://my-gatsby.site
  drush cset silverback_cdn_redirect.settings 404_path /404
  drush cset silverback_cdn_redirect.settings should_prefix_404_path true
  

Gatsby config

• Add gatsby-plugin-netlify package
• Configure the catch-all redirect in createPages

  createRedirect({
    fromPath: '/*',
    toPath: `https://my-drupal.site/cdn-redirect/:splat`,
    statusCode: 200,
  });

  Note: statusCode: 200 is required to "hide" the request to backend from the browser.