Magento – How to redirect a category page link to CMS page link in Magento 2

Magento, rewrite manage work whenever Request Path & Target without base url.

Why, you did tried with htaccess 301 redirection.

It is every good idea use htaccess 301 if you using Apache as web server

# Permanent URL redirect - generated by 
Redirect 301 http://domain.com/home http://domain.com/

Or,you can use magento event observer.

In magento,when a Cms is call,then an event cms_page_render is fire before render layout.

And on this event using magento 301 redirection

(Mage::app()->getResponse()->setRedirect(Mage::getUrl(),301)->sendResponse())

and on basic of page identifier match $observer->getEvent()->getPage()->getIdentifier()=='home'

You can redirect to domain.com/home page to domain.com/

config.xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
......
  <global>
    <events>
      <cms_page_render> 
        <observers>
          <slash_home_to_domain>
            <type>singleton</type>
            <class>ModuleNameSpace_ModuleName_Model_Observer</class>
            <method>Home301redirect</method>
          </slash_home_to_domain>
        </observers>
      </cms_page_render>     
    </events>
  </global>
.....
</config>

Observer code:

<?php
class ModuleNameSpace_ModuleName_Model_Observer
{

    public function Home301redirect($observer)
    {
      $cmspage = $observer->getEvent();
      /* Condition match and redirect to home */
      if($cmspage->getIdentifier()=='home'):
  Mage::app()->getResponse()
      ->setRedirect(Mage::getUrl(), 301)
      ->sendResponse();
      exit();
      endif;
      return;
    }
}

Follow these step for url rewrite:

1. Find Magento URL Rewrite Management - by going to Catalog > Rewrite Management

2. Select Add URL Rewrite

3. Select the custom option from the drop down

4. Now you will see few options:

ID Path: Is the unique identifier for this rewrite. This should just be custom, but is only used for admin purposes

Request Path: Is the URL you would like to redirect

Target Path: Is the URL you would like the Request Path directed to

Redirect: You always want this to be permanent as 302 (or temporary redirects) do not pass any of the link juice to the new URL.

Description: This is an optional description field. Use this to keep notes on what and why you set this URL redirect up

Fill these fields out correctly

Click Save- This should be the job done.

Quickly try out your redirect to make sure it’s working correctly