Is it possible to rename routes?

Henry Wright

I did a search which brought up this topic. Considering it was posted almost a year ago I'm wondering if there's now an easier way to rename routes?

For example, I'd like to rename:

Recent to New
example.com/recent to example.com/new

Users to Members
example.com/users to example.com/members

a_5mith

Think you can do this in the ACP, under Navigation But don't trust me on that. It gives you the option to change the name, but I'm not sure if the route changes with it. Or if it will 404 when looking for route.

Henry Wright

@a_5mith I just tried the navigation tab, the menu wording changed OK but it resulted in a 404 when I visted example.com/members and example.com/new

julian

Mmm... unfortunately I think we thought of this too late, as all existing references to internal links rely on the route names not changing...

e.g. If there's some backend code that sends a user to /category/4 when they do something, bad things will happen if the /category path was renamed to /forum, since it's hardcoded to /category

But... you could have a play around with nginx to rewrite requests for the new route to the old...

Edit: Yep, works.

location / {
    rewrite ^/new/?$ /recent break;
}

Then you could change all references to /recent in templates to /new...

Henry Wright

@julian thanks. I'll give it a try!