I’m trying to change my site’s url from authoritygenius.netlify.app to authoritygenius.com/signup. (www.authoritygenius.com is my custom domain). I used the redirect rule given in this question on the forums:
Setting a sub directory of my custom domain to Netlify blog
Unfortunately I’m getting a problem when deploying my site with the _redirects file which is in my site’s src folder on github (linked below). It says: Different publish path detected, going to use the one specified in the Netlify configuration file: ‘AuthorityGenius-form-page/_redirects’ versus ‘_redirects’ in the Netlify UI , And then it says: Failed during stage ‘building site’: Deploy directory ‘AuthorityGenius-form-page/_redirects’ does not exist.
Here is the folder with the redirect file in it: https://github.com/mohamedhefnawy1/credLabs-phase1/tree/main/AuthorityGenius-form-page
In my build settings I changed the publish directory to AuthorityGenius-form-page/_redirects as the documentation said.
Please let me know if there is any more information required or if you know where I’m messing up. Thank you for everything.
Hi @MohamedElhefnawy
The file in the repository is incorrectly named as _redirects.txt instead of _redirects (no .txt extension.)
I see, I’ve changed the name of the file, but when I go to deploy my site it fails and shows me the following deploy log:
11:53:31 AM: Build ready to start
11:53:33 AM: build-image version: d7b3dbfb0846505993c9a131894d1858074c90b4 (focal)
11:53:33 AM: build-image tag: v4.10.1
11:53:33 AM: buildbot version: aa4e1c51618610360476c8cb99b22ac3191f186e
11:53:33 AM: Fetching cached dependencies
11:53:33 AM: Starting to download cache of 153.1MB
11:53:33 AM: Finished downloading cache in 649.65555ms
11:53:33 AM: Starting to extract cache
11:53:34 AM: Finished extracting cache in 128.722308ms
11:53:34 AM: Finished fetching cache in 851.986682ms
11:53:34 AM: Starting to prepare the repo for build
11:53:34 AM: Preparing Git Reference refs/heads/main
11:53:34 AM: Parsing package.json dependencies
11:53:35 AM: Different publish path detected, going to use the one specified in the Netlify configuration file: ‘AuthorityGenius-form-page/_redirects’ versus ‘_redirects’ in the Netlify UI
11:53:35 AM: No build steps found, continuing to publishing
11:53:35 AM: Creating deploy upload records
11:53:35 AM: Failing build: Failed to build site
11:53:35 AM: Failed during stage ‘building site’: Deploy directory ‘AuthorityGenius-form-page/_redirects’ is not a directory
11:53:35 AM: Finished processing build request in 2.726657055s
I’m not sure why it fails during stage ‘building site’ and says that deploy directory ‘AuthorityGenius-form-page/_redirects’ is not a directory. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks 
This is because _redirects is a file, not a directory. AuthorityGenius-form-page is a directory and the value you need to use for the publish path.
Do also note the syntax in _redirects is incorrect as the URLs are missing missing a protocol (e.g. https://.)