CakePHP route redirect with parameters - redirect

Question

I need to keep SEO links active so I'm trying to 301 redirect google trafic to new CakePHP route.
I go to:
http://localhost/jakne/someCategory/item-slug
And I want it to 301 redirect to:
http://localhost/product/item-slug
So I tried with route::redirect but I can't make it work. Doc on this is also non existent :(
$routes->redirect(
'/jakne/:subcategory/:item',
['controller' => 'Catalog', 'action' => 'product'],
['status' => 301, 'pass' => ['item']]
);
My Catalog::product looks like:
public function product($productId) {
}
I always get error that no parameter was passed to the action.
What am I missing? :(

Answer 1

The option for retaining parameters in redirect routes isn't pass (that's for regular routes and defines which parameters to pass as function arguments), it's persist, ie your route would need to be something like:
$routes->redirect(
'/jakne/:subcategory/:item',
['controller' => 'Catalog', 'action' => 'product'],
['status' => 301, 'persist' => ['item']]
);
This should work fine, assuming you have a proper target route connected that has a parameter named item, something like.
$routes->connect(
'/product/:item',
['controller' => 'Catalog', 'action' => 'product'],
['pass' => ['item']]
);
Generally you may want to consider doing such redirects on server level instead (for example via mod_rewrite on Apache), performance wise that's much better.
ps. Browsers do cache 301 redirects, so when making changes to such redirects, make sure that you clear the cache afterwards.
See also
Cookbook > Routing > Redirect Routing

Answer 2

So it turns out this is quite simple. I use this to dynamically generate a list of redirects based on what admins enter in the control panel. We use this to keep google traffic when the URL changes and is not rescanned by the google bot yet.
$builder->redirect('/from-url', '/to-url', ['status' => 301]);

Answer 3

Try this ways it is working for me:
Example request like: localhost:08080/get-username?id=%3Cid%3E
Routes :
$routes->connect('/get-username', ['controller' => 'Users', 'action' => 'getUserName']);
Controller :
class UsersController extends AppController {
public function initialize() {
parent::initialize();
$this->loadComponent('RequestHandler');
}
public function beforeFilter(Event $event) {
parent::beforeFilter($event);
$this->set('_serialize', false);
$this->Auth->allow([
'getUserName'
]);
}
public function getUserName() {
$id = $this->request->getQuery('id');
}
}