ref: 45ce6e2b309dc247315885db4de4d03192b93914
dir: /docs/content/doc/redirects.md/
---
title: "Redirects"
Pubdate: "2013-07-09"
---
For people migrating existing published content to Hugo theres a good chance
you need a mechanism to handle redirecting old urls.
Luckily, this can be handled easily in a couple of easy steps.
1. Create a special post for the redirect and mark the file as a `redirect`
file in the front matter. Here is an example
`content/redirects/my-awesome-blog-post.md` :
```markdown
---
redirect: true
slug: /my-awesome-blog-post/
url: /docs/redirects/
---
```
2. Set the redirect template `layouts/redirects/single.html`:
```html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="canonical" href="{{ .Url }}"/>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url={{ .Url }}" />
</head>
</html>
```
Now when you go to `/my-awesome-blog-post/` it will do a meta redirect to
`/docs/redirects/`.