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Handles traffic for sites that have transitioned to GOV.UK
This is a Rack-based redirector. It serves 301s and 410s from mappings created by Transition.
You can use the GOV.UK Docker environment to run the application and its tests with all the necessary dependencies. Follow the usage instructions to get started.
Use GOV.UK Docker to run any commands that follow.
Bouncer and Transition currently share a database. As a result, we aim to keep a few of their dependencies in sync (on the same version), namely:
bundle exec rake
In order to test the redirect feature of this app, you can use a special bouncer-redirect.dev.gov.uk domain. We will create a mapping from this fake domain to GOV.UK.
One of the seeded organisations will be “Cabinet Office”, which we will use in the next step.
| Abbreviated name: | bouncer-redirect |
| TNA timestamp: | 20141104112824 |
| Homepage: | https://www.gov.uk |
| Hostname: | bouncer-redirect.dev.gov.uk |
| Global type: | Redirect |
| … with Global new URL: | https://www.gov.uk |
This will create the site in the shared Transition / Bouncer DB.
You should see that it redirects to GOV.UK, as specified in the site file.
In contrast to other GOV.UK applications, Bouncer isn’t available at x.staging.publishing.service.gov.uk
This means that testing the application on our staging environment will require repointing the domains you wish to test by editing your computer’s host file to point them at Bouncer’s staging IP address. This should allow visiting the app in a web browser, for example. Alternatively, to make a request to our staging environment with curl:
curl -I -H"Host: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk" http://0.0.0.0/aboutus/pages/civilcriminalpanels.aspx
Lists of domain names, old URLs and URLs to redirect to are stored in a PostgreSQL database to which the application has read-only access.
Here are some examples using a few of the many domain names which is served by Bouncer:
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| http://www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk/aboutus/pages/civilcriminalpanels.aspx | Serves a redirect to a page on GOV.UK |
| http://www.bonavacantia.gov.uk/output/accessibility.aspx | Serves a 410 archive page |
| http://rdpenetwork.defra.gov.uk/i-made-this-up | Serves a 404 not found page |
| http://www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk/sitemap.xml | Serves a sitemap of all redirects for the domain |
| http://www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk/robots.txt | Serves a minimal robots.txt |