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Support canonicalizing URLs for SEO friendliness

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#44 opened on Mar 17, 2017

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Description

From a slack discussion:

dpehrson [9:54 AM] @josh If you go that direction, make sure you include <link rel="canonical"/> tags on all those pages, and better yet force 301 redirects on each of those :show actions to ensure people get redirected to the canonical URL.

We need something that knows the canonical URL for a given controller action and redirects to it - that way if you access a category by ID, and there's a usable slug, we can redirect to the sluggy version. If we do that we don't need link rel="canonical"

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Tech stack
elixirhtml
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backendfull stack
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feature
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3
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half day
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stale
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Elixir basicsPhoenix routing
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40
Research direction
Investigate the router configuration in lib/firestorm web/router.ex and look for existing slug based routes. Examine the Show action in controllers for categories and topics. Consider implementing a plug that checks for a canonical URL and performs a 301 redirect if the current URL is not canonical. Review any existing tests related to routing or redirects in test/firestorm web/controllers.