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Last updated: 25 Feb 2021

contacts-admin: Redirecting contacts that have been removed already

Contacts Admin used to issue a “gone” item to Publishing API when a contact was deleted. But since #838, we issue a “redirect” instead.

If a contact was removed as a “gone” item and now needs to be redirected, we have a Rake task for this:

$ cd /var/apps/contacts
$ sudo -u deploy govuk_setenv contacts bundle exec rake contacts:replace_gone_with_redirect[removed-contact-slug,organisation-slug,path-to-redirect-to]

This will fail if either of the following are true:

1. removed-contact-slug references a contact object in the Contacts Admin database
2. the path constructed by removed-contact-slug and organisation-slug does not refer to a “gone” item in content store