Hi there,
As Scott mention. There is a direct and hardcoded way of doing this by different mapping that will handle the requests for a page so you don't even get to that page in the first place. This of course could be a bit annoying if these pages change from time to time and that is something that is up to any authors to decide. Ususally you don't want them to change any mappings in the platform.
As you probably have noted, the usage of the redirect functionality is most sometime handled _outside_ of the page that has this attribute like a navigational list of some kind (think menu bar). This menu then looks at all the pages and if they lack a redirect target, it will create a link to that page, otherwise it will redirect to the other page.
This however brings us to your problem, without the mappings, there is no way for CQ to know that you are going for a redirect without any mappings done.
One possible solution for this could be, at the page template level, to have a check at the top of your pages that will handle the redirect if the page has a redirect target set.
The following code explains how to do this by a small example:
<% String redirectTarget = properties.get("GET THE REDIRECT PROPERTY FROM THE PAGE HERE", String.class); if(!redirectTarget == null || ... or empty){} response.setStatus(response.SC_MOVED_TEMPORARILY); response.setHeader("Location", redirectTarget); } %> This is just a suggestion and the above code is only an example of what i mean. I hope you get the idea. Good Luck :)
