Configure Netlify redirects for projects with custom publish or base directory
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Configure Netlify redirects for projects with custom publish or base directory
Published: 2023.02.25 · 2 minutes read
Netlify supports two methods to configure redirects — a _redirects
file and redirects
tables in the netlify.toml
. For context, these are two examples of how to redirect page-one
to page-two
using both methods.
/page-one /page-two
[[redirects]]
from = "/page-one"
to = "/page-two"
I use the Hugo framework that outputs HTML files into the public
directory, so I configured it as a publish
directory in netlify.toml
. Since the configuration file was already there, I smashed some new redirects in there. I faced some issues with this setup, so I published this quick post to save you from the unpleasant surprise of broken redirects.
Netlify reads redirects from the base/publish directory#
As long as your website is hosted from the top-level directory of your repo, Netlify will respect redirects configured there. This behaviour changes when you use a framework that pre-builds files to a publish
directory. The same applies when the base
directory is anything else than the root, typical for monorepos.
In the pre-processing stage, Netlify reads the configuration from the root. Post-processing configuration, like redirects and rewrites, is read from the base
/publish
directory. In my case, adding a _redirects
file to the public
directory and removing redirects
tables from the top-level netlify.toml
solved the problem.
Unfortunately, this part of the official documentation could be better. I understood this only because of one comment by Luke Lawson on the Netlify Support Forum. I will contact the Netlify team and do my best to contribute and improve this part of the documentation.
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