Can 'splat' be used in Hugo Server redirects config?

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In config/development/server.yaml I have the following:

redirects:
- from: /docs/pyrosim/latest/*
  status: 200
  to: /docs/pyrosim/2020-4/:splat
- from: /docs/pathfinder/latest/*
  status: 200
  to: /docs/pathfinder/2020-4/:splat

When I try to run server I get the error:

Error: unspported redirect to value "/docs/pyrosim/2020-4/:splat" in server config; currently this must be either a remote destination or a local folder, e.g. "/blog/" or "/blog/index.html"

Is there a way to use the splat string to represent the asterisk as I do in my Netlify redirects file?

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No, there is not.

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Thank you, I made a new feature request for it.

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That :splat is a Netlify specific command. Itā€™s probably better to go away from that and make the proposal about a proper redirect command that is able to redirect (.*) by using $1 like the Apache config has.

Maybe that here will help you: I have a repo where I create redirect files for Netlify via Hugo posttype.

This will not create single redirect command, but you could use it to create redirects for every single post.

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" Itā€™s probably better to go away from that and make the proposal about a proper redirect command that is able to redirect (.*) by using $1 like the Apache config has."

This is a fine idea, I donā€™t really care much about the syntax, I really just want the same or similar functionality in the redirects feature.

Iā€™ll check out your repo in the meantime, thank you for the link.

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My 50 cents about this:

  • I added a basic redirect feature similar to Netlify to get URL rewrites to support SPA like situations.
  • I donā€™t know the use case for :splat is, but if we would add something like that it would need to be really simple (since it seems that itā€™s me ho will have to maintain it (and possibly implement it))
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The simple use case for me is to capture the portion of the URL from the asterisk to the end and append that to the end of the ā€œtoā€ URL. I donā€™t need anything else. I need to rewrite the beginning part of the URL before the * and donā€™t require multiple placeholders, RegEx, etcā€¦

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I understand the technical use case, what do you need this for in a ā€œHugo static siteā€ context?

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In my case, I have a documentation website, where we update the redirects in Netlify for ā€˜latestā€™ to point to a specific version (path) of the URL.

Example:
http://localhost:1313/docs/pyrosim/latest/user-manual/
would point to:
http://localhost:1313/docs/pyrosim/2020-4/user-manual/

In my Netlify _redirects file I have the following two lines to handle this.

/docs/pyrosim/latest/*  /docs/pyrosim/2020-4/:splat 302
/docs/pathfinder/latest/*  /docs/pathfinder/2020-4/:splat 302

You can test it hereā€¦ https://support.thunderheadeng.com/docs/pyrosim/latest/user-manual/

When we release the next version of our documentation, we update this file to the new version number. Some of our other ā€˜tutorialsā€™ and ā€˜trainingā€™ resources point to the ā€˜latestā€™ URL. We want to be able to check for broken links and click through the site when running the Hugo server and have it work the same as on Netlify.

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