Questions about redirects - DNS issues and rule format

Issue:

  • I am redirecting my current site hosted on Netlify to another property not hosted on Netlify using a _redirects file.
  • I am trying to redirect https://www.albion.mediahttps://www.tryjraft.com
  • Immediately after build, the redirect works correctly, but after around 10-20 seconds, the redirect stops working. I have tried over 30 different combinations of redirect files to no avail, and this seems like a bug on Netlify’s side, not user error.

The redirect file is the following:
‘/* https://www.tryjraft.com

Netlify Site name: ‘albion-landing-page.netlify.app’

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@alex.pan1021 From what I can tell, your DNS settings are totally borked on each of these sites.

Albion is registered with GoDaddy, and is using GoDaddy DNS, but you also have Netlify name servers specified in your GoDaddy DNS. Your apex domain is on an nginx server while the www sub-domain is on Netlify. You also seem to have a CNAME for the www sub-domain that points to your Netlify albion-landing-page site.

Tryjraft, on the other hand, is registered with NameCheap, and is using AWS for DNS. Your www sub-domain is pointing at your GitHub URL, probably due to your CNAME entry. Your A record for the apex domain is not pointing at Netlify’s load balancer IP address. Your A records for the www sub-domain is pointing at your GitHub URL and four IP addresses. Neither your apex nor www sub-domain is hosted with Netlify.

Have you reviewed this information?

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Hey @gregraven, thanks for the well thought out answer.

I’ve updated the DNS settings of www.albion.media to use Netlify’s DNS but the redirect still isn’t working. What am I doing wrong?

@alex.pan1021 Wow, you made a lot of changes to your DNS settings. I think what you need now is to edit the redirect command to:

https://www.albion.media/* https://www.tryjraft.com/:splat 301!

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Hi, @alex.pan1021. It seems that you have implemented @gregraven’s most recent recommendation as it is working when I test now:

$ curl -svo /dev/null https://www.albion.media/foo  2>&1 | grep "< location"
< location: https://www.tryjraft.com/foo

If there are other questions about this, please let us know.

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@gregraven

Thank you so much, that has fixed my problem! Legend

Thanks @luke for following up on this

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