How to setup 301 redirections in GCP load balancer?

Question

I've setup a static website on GCP using this tutorial. So I have a bucket and a load balancer.

I'm trying to setup URL redirections in the load balancer to avoid BC breaks on old URLs. I want an user arriving to https://example.org/foo to be redirected to https://example.org/bar. I have a dozen redirections like this to setup.

Is there a way to configure that in the load balancer? Or anywhere else?

I've searched in the routing rules, but I'm expecting a "from" field where I could enter "/foo" and a "destination" field where I could enter "/bar", but I got this:

Or should I use the YAML Path matcher? But I can't find any example of this basic case.

Answer 1

There is a possibility of URL redirection in GCP Load balancer and from the information provided by you it is observed that a bucket and a Global HTTPs Load balancer were created in your environment.

To proceed with the URL redirection, you can add configuration to a URL map so that the map routes traffic to the appropriate service.

Replace the host and path as per the requirement in the below configuration related to url redirection.

urlRedirect:
  hostRedirect: "new-host-name.com" # Omit to keep the requested host
  pathRedirect: "/new-path" # Omit to keep the requested path; mutually exclusive to prefixRedirect
  prefixRedirect: "/newPrefix" # Omit to keep the requested path; mutually exclusive to pathRedirect
  redirectResponseCode: FOUND
  stripQuery: True

For more information please refer to the official documentation.