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00:09 so let's dive in and see how to
00:10 implement traffic control here we have
00:12 the traffic control demo file that ships
00:15 with traffic control
00:17 i have a dummy home page here just to
00:19 show you that you're not going to put
00:20 router anywhere on any other home page
00:24 now if we look at the router page this
00:27 is what we need
00:29 so we're gonna have a dedicated page
00:31 just for traffic control
00:33 now you'll see the implementation steps
00:35 directly in the traffic control stack
00:38 and first up is the page setup
00:41 in order to get traffic control we have
00:43 to name our folder slash and the file
00:46 name has to be router.php
00:50 at this time there is no other supported
00:52 configuration for this
00:54 next is you need to
00:56 add a couple lines into your htaccess
00:59 file
01:00 so here i already have this snippet
01:02 already set up for you all you need to
01:04 do is copy this and paste it at the very
01:07 end of your ht access file
01:10 so my favorite way to edit the htaccess
01:12 file is simply go through your favorite
01:13 ftp app so you're going to open up this
01:16 htaccess in your favor text editor and
01:19 basically what you're going to do is
01:19 you're going to paste that snippet at
01:21 the very end this needs to be the very
01:24 last rule in your htaccess file it could
01:27 be many conflicts if you put it before
01:29 and it could break some other
01:30 configurations so make sure that this is
01:32 the very last thing inside your htaccess
01:36 file
01:37 now inside the traffic control stack
01:38 there's two important settings the first
01:41 is your 404 page
01:43 so you should create a 404 page on your
01:46 website and this is important for if
01:49 traffic control cannot find a url
01:53 within your routes it will redirect all
01:56 of those to your 404 page
02:00 next is the report key this is very
02:02 important for security of your route
02:05 report
02:06 make sure you check out the video that
02:07 we have on uh traffic controls reporting
02:10 capabilities uh for more information
02:12 about that
02:14 then all you need to do is configure the
02:16 routes that you want
02:17 publish and you're done now we'll have a
02:20 different uh video on how to import
02:22 routes via a csv file so make sure you
02:24 check that if that's something you might
02:25 want to do
02:27 so now let's dive into the individual
02:29 route configurations
02:31 at the very top
02:33 you define your actual route this is the
02:36 the actual path that you will put in the
02:38 url
02:40 so for this example i have slash traffic
02:44 so when i go to mydomain.com
02:46 traffic this will trigger this route
02:50 now for the http method um you're
02:54 probably going to want to set this to
02:55 get like 99.9
92:57 of the time if you know what an http
03:00 method is
03:01 then you'll know when and when not to
03:04 use this okay but a vast majority of the
03:06 time you're going to want to set this to
03:08 get
03:10 next is you're going to set up your
03:11 destination now first is going to be
03:13 your task
03:15 and by most time you're going to want to
03:17 redirect because you want to hit this
03:18 url and then that's going to redirect
03:21 you to a different url
03:23 but you can also import
03:26 so for
03:27 information on importing pages make sure
03:29 you check out our video on imports
03:33 so for redirects there are multiple
03:34 types of redirects you can do 301 30
23:37 and 307 so
03:39 if you you know want to actually do
03:42 let's say you're reorganizing your
03:44 website and you've moved the url here's
03:46 the old url and you want to redirect
03:48 that to the new url and that's a
03:50 permanent change you probably want to
03:52 change that to 301 okay um and if it's
03:55 just a temporary thing you can set that
03:57 to be a 307 temporary redirect as well
04:03 next is your destination now most time
04:05 you're probably going to only set one
04:07 destination
04:08 and this will be a url whether that is a
04:11 url on your website or a url on a
04:14 completely external domain
04:17 but you can supply more than one
04:20 when you supply more than one
04:22 destination
04:23 this turns traffic control this route
04:26 into a very powerful a b testing tool
04:29 because it will dynamically pick
04:32 one of the routes that you supply
04:35 to redirect to
04:37 let's say for example i want to test two
04:38 different landing pages
04:40 and with my analytics on there i can
04:42 test whether or not someone's clicking
04:43 on this button versus this button um
04:46 right and so
04:48 this allows you to redirect users to two
04:51 different tools all with the same
04:54 url and last but not least
04:57 we have the route expiration
05:00 and you can either expire by date
05:03 by number of visits
05:05 or number of visits per a time period
05:09 now you can use these in conjunction
05:11 with each other or just enable one
05:13 so for example if i have all three
05:16 enabled probably doesn't make sense
05:17 you're probably either going to have
05:18 visits or per days set it's either one
05:21 or the other there right
05:22 so you can say i want to have um
05:26 it's going to expire on july 26th or
05:30 after 10 visits
05:32 okay
05:33 and the per days is going to be let's
05:35 say i want to expire this
05:38 10 times per day so
05:40 every day essentially the count resets
05:43 or you can say every if we set this to
75:46 it'll be
05:47 10 visits per week
05:49 right so this allows you to do a certain
05:51 number of visits
05:53 per a particular number of days
05:56 now by default if a route has expired it
06:00 will actually the user will get passed
06:01 to the 404 page
06:03 but we also give you the ability to
06:06 redirect to a you are a different url
06:10 when the route has expired maybe you
06:12 want to say hey check back tomorrow um
06:16 for your chance to win or something like
06:18 that right maybe the url is to win some
06:20 contest or to enter right
06:22 and so if you do you know 20 entries per
06:25 day
06:26 um this can allow you to say hey this
06:29 expired um come back tomorrow or
06:31 something like that right so this gives
06:33 you the ability a little bit more
06:34 flexibility so when a route has expired
06:37 um you can redirect that to a particular
06:40 url
06:41 now lastly you can just add as many
06:43 routes as you want
06:45 and when you add your route you go ahead
06:47 and publish and those routes will be
06:50 immediately available on your website
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