redirection.io offers several ways to be notified when things happen on your website or in your project.

We have launched today new "team notifications", to keep your team or coworkers informed of the occurrence of an event in the redirection.io project. For the moment, the notification feature is able to send notifications to Slack channels, email addresses (a mailing-list, for example) or to webhook URLs (for automation).

This feature is available only to "Pro" plans and is designed to keep your colleagues informed that something is happening in the project. This "something" can be an event of different types:

• a rules import has been completed;
• new rules have been published;
• a crawl has been started, or is completed.

➡ Read the full documentation about project notifications. We are opened to suggestions on new notification channels to add (or new events), so feel free to ask us! 💌

As a sidenote, redirection.io already features several other notification types:

• personal notifications, available in the user account settings (new logins, 2FA is enabled or disabled, etc.)
• a project "weekly digest" email, to get informed of the evolution of your website's traffic

Many redirection.io users have made our logs trail a central part of their strategy to discover traffic issues, and ultimately ensure that their website is running smoothly. Some of them even explained us that they keep a sticky browser tab with redirection.io opened, to regularly check "how things go well".

But in the meantime, some other redirection.io users were missing a long-asked feature, a regular reminder that would ping them if something was going wrong. While redirection.io is a great solution to monitor the traffic of your website and ensure that it runs well without issues, not everyone has the reflex to check the logs on a daily basis. As they say: what works too well tends to be forgotten!

This is the reason why we are launching today a new weekly digest email, available to all our customers right now 🎉 It features all the important information about your project, and all the events that occurred the week before:

• how did the traffic evolve? 📈
• did new errors happen, that should need some attention (and maybe new redirect rules)? 🔃
• how is your project secure? Did you enable 2FA? 🔐
• were new rules published in the project? ✍
• are your redirection.io agent instances healthy, or do they need upgrades? ⏩

For more readability and efficiency, the weekly digest email embeds some charts so you can notice issues in a matter of seconds:

To enable this new weekly digest, head to your profile preferences. There, you can subscribe to receive this weekly email for all or some of your projects. Of course, if you manage dozen of projects, you may not want to receive as many emails as you have projects, so pick only the most important ones!

Once done, simply wait for next Monday morning, and you'll get some news of your website 🙂

With time fleeing, some redirection.io company organizations have been growing and have become so large that it can be a bit hard to figure out who performed actions in the organization projects.

In the meantime, we have been adding several features: new rule actions, introduced at the beginning of 2021, new publication roles and a redesign of the invitation features, our public API (currently in private beta), the redirection.io website crawler, etc., and it can become a bit cumbersome, in large organizations, to get a full overview of who is performing actions.

This is why we are introducing a new audit trail feature, in order to help organization administrators understand and audit which users are actively using the redirection.io solution within their organization.

This audit trail is available for every redirection.io organizations, whatever the plan - we always considered security is a first-class citizen, and strive to provide all our users with tools that can help them ensure security and traceability within their web platform. Security should not be a paid option.

The audit trail for your organization can be read by org administrators under the organization settings. We have begun logging events at the beginning of October 2021, so you will not find any event prior to that date.

📖 In order to learn more about the audit trail, please read our documentation section about the audit trail.

We have rolled out today a new feature for all redirection.io customers: marker templates.

Markers are the way in redirection.io to define URL patterns, which are useful to create wildcard redirection rules that will apply to several URLs at once.

For example, defining a Trigger with /shop/<REFERENCE>.html as the Source URL will match all the requests to a URL of this form: /shop/ref-a12.html, /shop/ref-12-34-56.html, etc.

In large redirection plans, it can be a little bit repetitive to define the same marker in several rules. The rules import tool already allows to create markers dynamically for many rules at once, but it does not help to update existing rules.

This is the reason why we have decided to introduce the concept of marker templates. In a few words, you can now define, at the project level, a set of markers that can be easily reused in several rules of the project. When a marker template is updated, you can update the rules which use this template: maintaining project-wide patterns is easier and more flexible than before! Using a project-wide marker template when creating a new redirection rule saves you a few clicks, for more productive and easy rules management:

Want to lean more ? Read our documentation about marker templates in our documentation 🧑‍🎓

There are releases around the corner today! We have just published the 2.2.0 releases for the redirection.io agent, the Apache and nginx modules. These releases introduce several new features, that should be of great use for system administrators.

agent improvements

The agent now supports two command line options:

• --version displays the version of the agent,
• --test can be used to test the configuration file and display possible errors before reloading the agent.

Also, we have added a metrics HTTP endpoint in the agent, which can be enabled in the agent configuration, and used in your monitoring tools to collect some data about the behavior of the agent.

nginx and Apache module changes

Some new features have also been added in the 2.2.0 versions of the nginx and Apache modules. First, it is now possible to configure how the connection pool is managed between the webserver and the redirection.io agent. See the documentation about these options, for both nginx and Apache.

We have also introduced a new redirectionio_set_header / RedirectionioSetHeader virtualhost directive, which allows to map some Apache or nginx variables as request headers when the request is inspected by the redirection.io agent. This may sound a bit obscure, but it opens up many possibilities for redirection.io automation. For example, it means that you can now create rules which can be triggered based on variables created by other server modules - we will tell you more about use cases in a few days.

We are announcing today two great improvements for your account and website security.

As of now, we support authenticating to redirection.io using a Google or a Microsoft account. If you used to login using your email and password, you can now safely login with Google or Microsoft, too. If logging in with an existing email address, you will continue to see your organizations and projets, like before.

For users who prefer to login using an email and a password, we have added the possibility to setup Two-factor authentication. We urge our customers to enable it and raise the level of protection of their redirection.io accounts.

Both of these new features are explained in details in the "User account and preferences" documentation page.

In the next weeks, we will allow organization administrators to enforce Two-factor authentication for all the users of their organization.

These new features are available to all our customers, whatever their projects plans, because we believe that security is a first class citizen.

Today is a great day for redirection.io! We have released the v2.0.0 of the redirectionio-agent, the software component that runs redirection rules on the websites of our customers. This new version is the result of several months of hard work and includes many improvements. in addition to better overall agent performance, this release introduces new triggers and actions that will allow a much more powerful use of redirection.io.

Starting today, redirection.io users can create rules that are triggered by:

• the URL (or URL pattern)
• the HTTP method of the request
• the status code of the backend response
• the value of a request header

Used to create redirection rules? You can still do it with the new agent, of course, and you can also:

• override HTML meta tags (you know, the <title> tag at the top of every web page?)
• set the value of a response header
• inject arbitrary HTML code in your web pages

In the coming months, we will be adding more triggers and actions. However, for now, it means that configuring the following behaviors only takes a few clicks with redirection.io:

• I want to 302 redirect all the requests under /products/* for which the backend responded with a 404 - this can be useful to avoid 404 errors in product catalog pages, for example ;
• I want to 302 redirect the user to /fr if the X-GeoIP request header is defined and its value starts with fr
• I want to change the meta title and meta description on the page /products/example-product.html
• I want to add a meta og:image on every page of my website
• I want to add a x-frame-options response header to all the responses of my website, and set its value to SAMEORIGIN

Want more triggers or actions? Let us know!

• Read more about triggers and actions ⚡
• Read the detailed changelog

We are launching today these "What's new on redirection.io?" pages, to let us explain the daily changes that are made to the redirection.io platform. We are constantly improving the solution, and have introduced many new features in the last year. With over 200 production deployments completed in 2020, and more intense work to come, we thought it was a good time to start sharing with our customers the changes that we make to redirection.io.

Our team is working every day very hard to improve our redirect solution and create innovative new features to solve SEO and web traffic management problems. Our roadmap contains great things for 2021, so this was the way to keep you informed! Our goal is to keep you up-to-date on new features that we launch, ask for your feedback, or share important product annoucements.

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