Can an Ember.js Route redirect to an external URL?

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Chris picture Chris · Mar 20, 2014 · Viewed 11.6k times · Source

If I want to have a URL on an Ember.js website called example1.com that forwards to a URL on example2.com, how would I do that. Can I create a route of example1.com that will perform the forward to example2.com - maybe in the beforeModel hook?

Answer

chopper picture chopper · Mar 20, 2014

Just use a regular <a>: 

<a href="example2.com">Route to Example 2</a>

If you want to have it forward if the user types in the URL directly into the address bar, you will need to do that redirect in your server. That doesn't have anything to do with Ember though.

Alternatively you could just use 

App.YourRoute = Ember.Route.extend({
  redirect: function() {
     window.location.replace("http://stackoverflow.com");
  }
});

The beforeModel (or any other) hook should also work.

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