Handle Redirects in Solidus

[fthobe]

Background

It is commonly known that 404 pages are not ideal for SEO. While their impact has decreased thanks to soft 404 pages that provide html site maps or other link structures and call to actions that redirect traffic, currently the removal of a product or change of a slug would automatically cause in a hard 404.

Current Behavior

Solidus does not handle redirects right now, externally caused 301 need to be handled in whatever webserver or reverse proxy is used.

Desired Behavior

A simple tool to create redirections with various status codes.

• 301 for permanent redirect in case a resource relevant for the frontend has changed slug
• a maintenance feature 503 for redirecting the entire system temporarily for maintenance with an appropriate template in the starter_frontend
• correct 404 handling (204 vs 404) as documented here

@jhawthorn @graygilmore
I saw you use spree_redirect, what's your experience there?