How are you doing? I will try to make this as simple as possible: I have a HTML called users.html. That HTML contains a JS script that fetches a user’s information on the server. It gets the username using the URL. For example: webpage.com/users/kibebr or webpage.com/users.html/kibebr the JS scr…

@kibebr It’s a little unclear what you’re trying to do. Your redirect tells Netlify that anyone who tries to visit /users/kibebr should instead be sent to /users. If you want the user name to be used in a new URL somehow, then you must have something like to = "/users.html/:splat".

@gregraven I am so sorry for not explaining it concisely. Basically, my users.html has a script that reads the window URL and gets the last string after a slash. For example: webpage.com/users/theusername The script will read the theusername. Then, it will fetch theusename's information from the…

@gregraven Yep, seems like redirects aren’t actually necessary. I have tried removing all redirects and the “issue” is that when I type in webpage.com/users/theusername, Netlify reads theusername as another page, and tries to get theusername.html. Basically I’m trying to make theusername a query,…

Hey @kibebr , I think the cleanest solution here would be query parameters which would result in a URL such as webpage.com/users?theusername . You won’t need to do this but, if you need to redirect them in future, we support query parameter redirects.

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gregraven May 17, 2020, 8:06pm 4

@kibebr OK, so you’re not actually redirecting to another page? I think you’re going to have to stick with your JavaScript solution because redirects seem not to be designed for this task.

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