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From YouTube: How to create 301 Redirects on about.gitlab.com

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Learn how to create a 301 redirect on about.gitlab.com.

For more information on redirects on about.gitlab.com visit https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/blob/master/doc/redirects_on_about_gitlab_com.md#comparison-operators

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Hello: everyone, it's hanif here from the inbound marketing team. This is a follow up to my previous video on 301 redirects, where I explain what it is and how it works in this video I'll show you how to create your own 301, redirect on about.getmap.com, okay, we're going to use the web ide to create our 301 redirects, but this can also be done locally.

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So let me just move myself over here, starting at data and scroll down to redirects dot yaml. This is where we're gonna enter or redirect. This is a it's a huge file, so um scroll all the way to the bottom and then we're gonna. Add our new redirect we're going to redirect an old page to a new page.

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To create your 301, redirect you need three lines of code. The first line you need is sources.

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This indicates the page you want to redirect whether it's been removed or the content has been changed or the structure has been changed to a new location.

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Second line you need is a target. This is where you want the old page to be redirected to you. The third line is your comparison operator.

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Just have a look at this example, so our source is. We want the whole page to be redirected to the new page and we use equal con comparison operator. Equals means exact match. So if anyone requests the url that matches our source, it will automatically be redirected to our target.

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For more information about comparison, operators, I'll include a link in the video description down below.

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Once you have created your 301 redirect commit your changes, create a merge request if you've got any questions or need any advice on 301 redirects reach out to us in the inbound marketing slack channel. Thanks again for watching bye.