Netlify.toml [[redirects]] rules not working as expected

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Hi, first off, love the service! Getting my hands dirty with it all of the time and learning a lot :+1:

I am however having trouble with some redirects rules that aren’t behaving as I would expect them to…

Expected behaviour:

Actual behaviour:

Page Not Found
Looks like you’ve followed a broken link or entered a URL that doesn’t exist on this site.
« Back to our site

Neither of the local paths (/client-portal.html and /client-portal) exist. I actually want both of these virtual paths to redirect to the same endpoint (eg. http://www.bbc.co.uk) however for the purpose of trying to understand the current setup, I’ve explicitly defined different endpoints.

My complete netlify.toml file is included below. The site in question is https://zen-saha-ec1bd1.netlify.app. Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

[build]
  base = "/"
  publish = "public/"
  command = "npm run deploy"

## prettify the page links
[[redirects]]
  from = "/tob.html"
  to = "/tob"
  status = 302
  force = true

[[redirects]]
  from = "/privacy.html"
  to = "/privacy"
  status = 302
  force = true

[[redirects]]
  from = "/cookies.html"
  to = "/cookies"
  status = 301
  force = true

## attempting to redirect from /client-portal.html 
## (and / or /client-portal) to the same external site
## but I've included different endpoints to see which 
## if any were successful
[[redirects]]
  from = "/client-portal.html"
  to = "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
  status = 301
  force = true

[[redirects]]
  from = "/client-portal"
  to = "https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport"
  status = 302
  force = true
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hi there, before we dig in, did you see this brand new guide on debugging redirects?

I strongly suggest you give it a thorough read through and see if this fixes your problem:

if not, please post again, and we’ll try and troubleshoot.