Retour capabilities about craft-retour HOT 1 CLOSED

So I think there's a little confusion here, let's see if we can't clear it up.

1. Is it possible to redirect to external urls? My company uses an external event platform that has really ugly urls, so we're in the habit of creating a shorter url that hits our Wordpress install and then sends users to the external event platform. I don't see any examples of this in your screenshots, so I wanted to confirm that this is/isn't a possibility.

Yes, Retour can redirect to any external URL.

2. Would Retour be effective in a headless implementation of Craft? I'd love to implement Craft as a Vue application, but I'd need the same functionality mentioned above. My guess is the answer is no here, but I thought I'd ask.

If it's a headless Craft implementation, then Craft itself won't be handling the incoming URLs for routing; this is something you give up when you go with a headless CMS. So for the Vue SPA site you're discussing, Craft will never see the incoming routes, and therefor Retour will never see them either.

So no, this won't work unless you have Craft handling the routing. Which typically you would not do for an SPA.

from craft-retour.