ULMS Systems & Development : Redirects for Millennium/Sierra/Legacy Catalog

You may have several hundred links pointing to your Millennium/Sierra/Legacy catalogs that you would like redirected to Primo.  This article includes some ideas about how you might accomplish redirecting legacy catalog links to Primo. 

Step-by-step guide:  Apache Redirect

This setup presumes you will be pointing your legacy catalog domain (e.g., catalog.example.edu) to a server that will have the following Apache configuration using Apache virtual hosts:

1. Find and edit your Apache Virtual Hosts configuration.  In Ubuntu, this may be found under /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf. 

Example configuration:

#Turn on RewriteEngine

RewriteEngine on

#redirect permanent URLs, e.g., catalog.example.edu/record=b9999999, to Xerxes, where they will redirect to Primo.  Be sure to edit yourinst to include your actual Xerxes URL

RewriteRule "^/record=(.+)" "http://library.calstate.edu/yourinst/books/record?id=$1" [R,L]

#If URL contains a searcharg query string, put the query string into a Primo URL as searchable keyword.  

#Note this Primo URL limits the results to only items available at the institution and does not search Primo Central.  This URL uses Northridge (UNO) as an example - be sure to modify the base URL, vid, and facet values to suit your institutional parameters  

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} searcharg=(.*)$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^/search(.*) https://csun-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?search_scope=EVERYTHING&vid=01CALS_UNO&facet=tlevel,include,available$$I01CALS_UNO&tab=everything&offset=0&query=any,contains,%1 [L,QSA,NE,NC]

#This is a catchall - anything catalog pattern not matching the above will redirect to a generic Primo search screen. This URL uses Northridge (UNO) as an example - be sure to modify the base URL, vid, and facet values to suit your institutional parameters  

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://csun-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?search_scope=EVERYTHING&vid=01CALS_UNO&facet=tlevel,include,available$$I01CALS_UNO&tab=everything&offset=0 [L,QSA,NE,NC]

Alternative method: PHP Redirect

 Thanks for Ian Chan (Unlicensed) for sharing this example script from San Marcos!

PHP URL Redirect Script (San Marcos)

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