Base path redirect rule is not working

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I’m building a simple internationalized next.js website.
Repo here: https://github.com/AustinShelby/Wowza
Deployed here: https://blissful-lamarr-6d96de.netlify.app/

I want the redirect rules to work in the following way:

/ redirects to /en
/catchall redirects to /en

Only the second rule is working correctly. The first one doesn’t do anything

My current next.config.js:

module.exports = {
  reactStrictMode: true,
  i18n: {
    locales: ["en", "de", "catchall"],
    defaultLocale: "catchall",
  },
};

and netlify.toml:

[[redirects]]
  from = "/catchall"
  to = "/en"
  status = 301
  force = true

[[redirects]]
  from = "/"
  to = "/en"
  status = 301
  force = true

The idea is to have a website with only paths that start with either en or de. Using the i18n in next.js this is currently impossible as the default locale doesn’t get added to the path.

2

Ok I managed to fix it myself.

I deleted the netlify.toml file and instead created a _redirects file with these contents:

/ /en 301!
/catchall /en 301!

and changed my build command to this: yarn build && cp _redirects .next