pfSense

Currently all of the help page redirects reside in /usr/local/www/help.php and if a new page is added between releases there is no way to update that list.

Rather than have the redirect list on the firewall, it should redirect to the docs site using a specific URL which can then be redirected server side. We've been intending to do this for quite some time, and have all the infrastructure in place, but need to do the final steps.

For example:

• On firewall_rules.php the help link points to help.php?page=firewall_rules.php
• help.php has an entry in $helppages which points the entry for firewall_rules.php to https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/firewall/rule-list-intro.html

This could be changed to:

• On firewall_rules.php the help link points to help.php?page=firewall_rules.php
• help.php redirects immediately to https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/help/firewall_rules.php
• The redirect config on docs.netgate.com will have a redirect help to the appropriate page as needed, which in this case would be an entry such as:
  

  rewrite ^/pfsense/help/firewall_rules.php /pfsense/en/latest/firewall/rule-list-intro.html permanent;
  

Once the new redirects are in place we can add new redirects as items get documented without having to update the help.php file on the firewall.

To me, I've already got the code and redirects ready.