I have a website: gavinpereira.in
I recently bought the domain gavn.in to use as a link shortener of sorts.
My intention is that, if gavn.in/contact is opened, it should redirect to gavinpereira.in/contact
The _redirects file looks like this:
/ https://gavinpereira.in/
/* https://gavinpereira.in/:splat
Everything works fine, but if you try opening gavn.in/ fails to take you to gavinpereira.in.
What could be the issue and how do I fix it?
Netlify site: gavnin.netlify.app
Hey @pexeixv
Do you have an index.html file deployed with gavn.in? If so you will need to force the redirect.
E.G.
/ https://gavinpereira.in 301!
If deploying as a shortener with everything redirecting (including the domain root), you can deploy without an index.html.
Hey @coelmay
I did try deploying without index.html, but it gets stuck on uploading. That’s why I had to create an empty index file.
I was able to fix it with the line above.
However, I still have to upload an empty index.html so that it’s not stuck on uploading.
Appears something has changed since I last tested this and the index.html is required.
Do not also you only need the one rule
/* https://gavinpereira.in/:splat 301!
as this covers the domain root as well.
The rule
/ https://gavinpereira.in 301!
is redundant.