Help Needed with Netlify Redirects Not Working

[nathanmartin]

@harrymead16

I’m trying to set up a redirect from the root of my site to a specific HTML page
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I have created a _redirects file in the root of my GitHub repository with the following line:
– / /verification-page.html 200

Since the status is 200 that is considered a rewrite not a redirect.
If working correctly the URL would remain as / but show the /verification-page.html page

@harrymead16

I’ve confirmed that verification-page.html exists in the repository and is included in the deployment.

How did you confirm this?
Using the Deploy File Browser?
Navigating directly to /verification-page.html?

@harrymead16

Verified that the _redirects file is correctly named and located at the root level.

Do you mean the root level of the repository, or the root level of the Publish directory?
It should be in the Publish directory.

@harrymead16

I checked the Netlify deployment logs, which show that the site is live, and the _redirects file was processed. The logs indicate:

• Post processing - redirect rules
  Post processing done

I may be wrong, but I believe this usually mentions how many rules were processed.
You should check the location, name, contents of the _redirects file again.