Permanent redirect from Github gh-pages

Question

I want to create a homepage and, for now, I think Github\'s pages features will serve my needs. However, I might want to switch to a more full-blown CMS/blog engine later on.

Answer 1

Mass redirect layout technique

Individual page redirects are covered at: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36846720/895245 Actual 301s seem impossible.

If you want to mass redirect:

http://you.github.io/some/path

to:

http://new_domain.com/some/path

do as follows.

Before you move away

• _layouts/default.html: the default layout

• _config uses the default layout:

  defaults:
    -
      scope:
        path: ''
      values:
        layout: 'default'
  

After you move away

• create _layouts/redirect.html with an HTML redirect derived from Redirect from an HTML page along:

  {% assign redir_to = site.new_domain | append: page.url %}
  
  
  
    
    
    
    
  
  
    
  Redirecting...
    Click here if you are not redirected.
    
  
  
  

• _config contains:

  defaults:
    -
      scope:
        path: ''
      values:
        layout: 'redirect'
  new_domain: 'http://new-domain.com/some/path
  

• replace every non-default layout with a symlink to the redirect layout. This is the only ugly part of this technique. I don't see a beautiful non-plugin solution.