How to redirect a journal to an external resource

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Hi,
I’m deploying an OJS site for an institution.
They already have another OJS with a single journal (say journal A), which needs to remain apart for corporate policies.
In the new OJS instance that I’m creating there will be an entry for that journal at the homepage level only, i.e, just listing, together with the rest of the institution’s journals.
Is there a way to redirect this journal (journal A) entry to its own already existing external OJS instance? Can this be done at a database level or could this be done some other way?

Thanks in advance for your reply.

Regards,
Juan

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Hi @jascanio

Redirects can be done by different ways. Thinking about your question a simple approach would it be use .htaccess 301 redirect conf.

E.g.:

You have your new domain/ojs: www.newurl.com/index.php/journalA
And your old URL is: www.oldurl.com/journalA

Create or edit a .htaccess file on root web folder of new OJS instance (Apache webserver = ./public_html) and add this lines

#Apache
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/index.php/journalA http://www.newurl.com/journalA [R=301,L]

This approach avoids tweak your OJS app or your database and it is easy to restore previous state, if anything goes wrong, just delete this two lines and everything will be back.

If your webserver is Nginx then you need to change your nginx.conf (and reload or restart it), but I advise to ask for a IT help, if you are not used to it. In summary you will need add a chunk of code (example bellow) inside your nginx.conf file:

#Nginx
location ~ /index.php/journalA/(.*) {
return 301 http://www.newurl.com/journalA;
}

Hope it helps

Israel

P.S. I have no idea how to do it in a MS Server (actually I do have, but I don´t think it is a good idea try it :slight_smile: )

3

Hi,

There is an option in the config.inc.php file in the main folder of your OJS installation

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I hope it helps.

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Hi @DiegoG and @israel.cefrin for your ideas and helpfull hints.

Best,
Juan