Redirect a whole folder with one rule
Moved or renamed a folder? One redirect rule now sends every page in it to its new address, and redirects no longer hide pages you still publish.
When you move a section of your site, every old link to it used to need its own redirect. Now one rule covers the whole folder. End from with /*, and put :splat in to where the rest of the path should go:
{
"redirects": [
{ "from": "/notes/*", "to": "/garden/:splat" }
]
}
/notes/recipes/bread now goes to /garden/recipes/bread, and /notes goes to /garden. The target can be another site too, such as "https://handbook.example.com/:splat". We used this ourselves to replace 28 redirect rules for our old Markdown guides with one.
- Your pages always win. A redirect now only applies when nothing is published at the old path. Before, a forgotten rule could hide a page you had since added back, so visitors never reached it. If you do want visitors sent away from a page, unpublish or delete it and the redirect takes over.
- First match wins, so a rule for one renamed page goes above the folder rule.
See URL redirects for all the options.
