I can't get redirect to work on netlify despite the app working locally

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My site name is https://adorable-flan-4059dd.netlify.app with a custom domain name - tragpt.com.

Although my site is deployed, the response from the app does not redirect properly and results in a page not found error. Hence, only the home page works.

Log:

10:54:43 PM: build-image version: 6fd4b129abc97418b4cd2d48c553dd4a014a6965 (focal)
10:54:43 PM: buildbot version: 6fd4b129abc97418b4cd2d48c553dd4a014a6965
10:54:43 PM: Fetching cached dependencies
10:54:43 PM: Starting to download cache of 83.8MB
10:54:44 PM: Finished downloading cache in 922ms
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10:54:50 PM: Collecting numpy==1.21.3
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10:54:50 PM: Processing /opt/buildhome/.cache/pip/wheels/a0/1c/c6/e258dd9f51667f810902504b9bdeeeb4f2298f72effc65bc2c/openai-0.19.0-py3-none-any.whl
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10:54:52 PM: Installing collected packages: toml, pycodestyle, autopep8, certifi, charset-normalizer, click, et-xmlfile, Werkzeug, MarkupSafe, Jinja2, itsdangerous, Flask, Frozen-Flask, idna, numpy, openpyxl, pandas-stubs, urllib3, requests, tqdm, six, python-dateutil, pytz, pandas, openai, python-dotenv
10:54:52 PM: Attempting uninstall: certifi
10:54:52 PM: Found existing installation: certifi 2022.12.7
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10:54:57 PM: Pip dependencies installed
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10:54:57 PM: go version go1.19.5 linux/amd64
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10:54:59 PM: ❯ Version
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10:54:59 PM: buildId: 63e08810fdbe9a000872aa18
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10:54:59 PM: Post processing - HTML
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10:54:59 PM: 1. Build command from Netlify app
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10:55:00 PM: Post processing done
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10:54:59 PM: $ python build.py
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10:54:59 PM: 2. Deploy site
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10:54:59 PM: Starting to deploy site from ‘build’
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10:54:59 PM: (Deploy site completed in 55ms)
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10:54:59 PM: Netlify Build Complete
10:55:00 PM: Site is live :sparkles:
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10:55:00 PM: Build script success
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10:55:00 PM: Uploading Cache of size 83.9MB
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@Abi2023 Are you able to link to the repository?

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Hi Nathan,
Yes, this is the repo link: https://github.com/abbey2017/travelgpt

Thanks.

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@Abi2023 If you’re talking about this redirect…

[[redirects]]
  from = "/*"
  to = "/index.html"
  status = 200

Then it is working corectly, which you can confirm by going to any url, for example:
https://tragpt.com/literally-anything-here-will-serve-the-index

If you’re talking about how your app behaves when the user presses the Generate places button, that will be due to the form having a method of post…
image

If you change it to get you will at least see the submitted value as a query string parameter in the url.

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The results are not showing after the generate places is clicked. I am not sure I understand the suggestion.

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@Abi2023 When the user enters the value into the input and hits submit, and the form does a POST to the /, what do you believe is receiving the posted value and responding?

Because if it’s this code in your app.py:

@app.route("/", methods=("GET", "POST"))
def index():
    if request.method == "POST":

Then you’ve misunderstood the type of hosting that is available with Netlify.

There’s no runtime server with python, or any of the other languages available.

Your build should execute, produce a static output that can be deployed to CDN, and then any runtime functionality needs to be achieved either via Serverless Functions or a server that you host elsewhere.

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Ok, thanks. I will look at the GET method.

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@Abi2023 See my updated message above that explains why you’re not seeing what you expect to see.

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