Issues with redirecting Netlify subdomain to main domain

apalbright · April 16, 2019, 1:47am

I just built a new website with blogdown and Hugo and I'm using continuous deployment with Netlify from my Github. All is good except for the fact that my _redirects file (which is meant to redirect from my subdomain to my main custom domain) isn't working as intended -- i.e., https://harvardgwe.netlify.com/ is not redirecting to https://harvardgwe.com/.

Here is my Github repo that Netlify is deploying, which includes the aforementioned _redirects file.

PS: I have been looking around for working examples of _redirects files for other peoples' blogdown websites and think maybe multiple people are experiencing the same issue...? E.g., @apreshill, are your redirects working?

Appreciate the help! Thanks all!

apreshill · April 16, 2019, 2:00am

Hey Alex,

Yes my redirects work, but yours does too I think? I see https://harvardgwe.com/ working, but perhaps I'm misunderstanding...

apalbright · March 21, 2021, 1:23am

Thanks for responding! So, with the redirect I want people who type in https://harvardgwe.netlify.com/ to end up at the URL https://harvardgwe.com/ instead. Right now if you go to the netlify subdomain it doesn't redirect to the primary domain. See below:

Does that make sense?

apreshill · December 3, 2020, 5:47am

Ah yes - so it is publishing the site to the correct domain because in your config.toml file you have baseURL = "https://harvardgwe.com/". Check out Yihui's redirects file- it may be that it needs to be in static? I forgot I moved mine to the root and it looks like it is having your same problem

github.com

rbind/yihui/blob/master/static/_redirects

/slides/*     https://slides.yihui.name/:splat
/cn/feed/     /cn/index.xml
/en/feed/     /en/index.xml
/xran/*       https://xran.yihui.name/:splat
/gh/tinytex/*                https://github.com/yihui/tinytex/raw/master/:splat
/knitr-jekyll/*              https://jekyll.yihui.name/:splat
/recharts/*                  https://recharts.yihui.name/:splat
/media/js/center-images.js   /js/center-img.js
https://yihui.netlify.com/*  https://yihui.name/:splat  301!
http://yihui.netlify.com/*   https://yihui.name/:splat  301!
/cn/2018/10/pod/             /cn/2018/10/pot/

apalbright · November 19, 2020, 7:30pm

Word, I moved the _redirects file to static/ and that worked!! Problem solved.
Thank you, @apreshill!

apreshill · November 24, 2020, 9:42pm

now to go fix mine so I don't keep setting a bad example!!

system · May 7, 2019, 2:59am

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