Netlify Redirects - 2 URLs into 1

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Hi All,

I’ve searched for help on this, and expected to find some because it doesn’t seem too out of the ordinary, but failed.

I have deployed my site to Netlify.
I have a _redirects file which has 22 entries.
In the deployment on Netlify, I can see it has processed 22 entries.
So far so good.

Two of the entries point to the same page.

/ContactUs.aspx /contact
/AddReview.aspx /contact

Netlify seems to process the two rules, but only the second one works.
I have swapped them round and still the same, only the second works.

Is what I am trying to do possible? This seems a pretty straight forward thing to do.

Thanks

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Yes it’s definitely possible. Did you forcing the rules like this: /ContactUs.aspx /contact 301!?

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Thanks for your help - unfortunately that doesn’t work.

I have read this in the docs but this talks about the first part of the redirect - not the second part:

" The redirects engine will process the first matching rule it finds, reading from top to bottom. Rules in the _redirects file are always processed first, followed by rules in the Netlify configuration file."

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Hi, @haribo85. It should work the way you have the rules written. If you tell us the URL that isn’t redirecting we can troubleshoot to find out why.

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Thanks for reaching out.

The site is here:
https://b6b818c2-48cb-4f06-bdc4-58710e2c1f5d.netlify.app/

This redirect works:
https://b6b818c2-48cb-4f06-bdc4-58710e2c1f5d.netlify.app/AddReview.aspx

This redirect doesn’t:
https://b6b818c2-48cb-4f06-bdc4-58710e2c1f5d.netlify.app/ContactUs.aspx

Here are the rules:
/ContactUs.aspx /contact 301!
/AddReview.aspx /contact 301!

Thanks

6

Anymore ideas on this?

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Hey @haribo85 ,

I’ve taken a look and it looks like our redirects engine has parsed the first rule in your redirects file incorrectly! I’m not 100% sure why it has done this but I would encourage you to remove the tabular indents in your _redirects file.

e.g. please try:

/ContactUs.aspx /contact 301!
/AddReview.aspx /contact 301!
/Music.aspx /music 301!
etc.

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Hey @Scott

Thanks for looking into this.

I’ve just made that change, but unfortunately it’s still the same.

Any other ideas?

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Okay, bare with me on this but is there any chance you can flip the rules in your file, please? Put the AddReview rule above ContactUs?

I think I can see a parsing error and I want to know if it’s impacting the first rule in your file, or specifically the ContactUs rule!

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As I stated at the top, no matter what order I put these two rules in, it’s always the second one that works.

I have just switched them around though as you asked for, and the same thing happens.

I’m not sure whether you have access to, but feel free to change the _redirects file yourself if it will help with debugging. The site is not live yet and I have no problem with you making changes if it will help speed up the fix.

Thanks

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Hey @haribo85 ,

The only difference between your site and other, working _redirects files is that your lines are wrapped with \r\n. This is a Windows versus Linux/Mac nomenclature difference.

Can I ask that you edit the file, ensuring that the \r character isn’t captured?

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Well, well, well! That’s only gone and fixed it!

I’ll be honest, I didn’t hold out much hope for that as all the other rules worked, I wondered why that would make a difference.
I also thought I can’t have been the only person to have tried this on a Windows machine and it fail.

But regardless, the redirects now work.

Thanks for all your help.

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