Redirects not working yet

[synthtalk]

Hi,

I’ve read through posts here, tried a few things and could use some advice on getting redirects working for my Hugo project. Here’s what I know so far:

1. Added a _redirects file to the /static directory for the site www.beeboxdesigns.com
   (I also tried redirects in netlify.toml)

2. Contents of the _redirects file

    # example redirect /synthtalk/ios-midi-sequencers   https://www.synthtalk.net/articles/ios-midi-sequencers
    /synthtalk/*  https://www.synthtalk.net/:splat 301

3. Netlify deploy message indicates _redirects was processed with no errors

    1 redirect rule processed
    All redirect rules deployed without errors.

4. Tested the rules in Netlify playground
   Yay! All redirects are valid

5. when I test this link for example, it is not redirected
   https://www.beeboxdesigns.com/synthtalk/ios-midi-sequencers/

Thank you for any suggestions

[gregraven]

Because you have the same page on each of your sites, you need to force the redirect with the 301! instead of the 301 directive. Otherwise, Netlify serves the page that is there.

See the definition of “force” in the “syntax” section of the Redirects docs page.

Redirects and rewrites

There is more information about this here.

Changed behavior in redirects

Hi all, We’re working on making a breaking change in how our redirects feature works regarding file shadowing. We want to explain to you why we’re making this change and how it can affect your sites on Netlify. Forced rules and shadowing To understand these changes, there are two concepts that you need to know first. First, Netlify redirects have the concept of forced rules. These rules can be expressed in two ways: in a _redirects file with an exclamation point after the status code, for ex…

[synthtalk]

@gregraven Thank you! Using the “force” option got it working. Solved.
The references were helpful.