diff --git a/roles/httpd/redirect/tasks/main.yml b/roles/httpd/redirect/tasks/main.yml
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+# This is a generic role for specifying redirects.  When I ported this over from
+# puppet, I looked first at trying to combine all of our redirects into one
+# perhaps easier to manage master redirects file.  The trouble I hit was that
+# certain redirects need to apply in the context of certain VirtualHost entries
+# while not in others.  Consequently, we use this template to stuff the redirect
+# role only into the {{website}}/ folder for each site.
+
+# Just do some sanity checking first
+- fail: msg="Bailing out.  'name' must be passed to this role."
+  when: name is not defined
+- fail: msg="Bailing out.  'website' must be passed to this role."
+  when: website is not defined
+- fail: msg="Bailing out.  'target' must be passed to this role."
+  when: target is not defined
+
+# These two should never fail.  We have defaults for them defined in
+# roles/httpd/redirect/vars/main.yml -- They are checked here for completeness.
+- fail: msg="Bailing out.  'path' must be passed to this role."
+  when: path is not defined
+- fail: msg="Bailing out.  'status' must be passed to this role."
+  when: status is not defined
+
+# This is the only real work we do.
+- name: Copy over httpd redirect file.
+  template: >
+    src=redirect.conf
+    dest=/etc/httpd/conf.d/{{website}}/{{name}}-redirect.conf
+    mode=0644
+    owner=root
+    group=root
+  notify:
+  - restart httpd
+  tags:
+  - httpd
+  - httpd/redirects
diff --git a/roles/httpd/redirect/templates/redirect.conf b/roles/httpd/redirect/templates/redirect.conf
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+Redirect {{ status }} {{ path }} {{ target }}
diff --git a/roles/httpd/redirect/vars/main.yml b/roles/httpd/redirect/vars/main.yml
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+status: 301
+path: /