Is `index.redir` still working for Netlify?

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index.redir inside /layouts used to work but for my new site it seems to fails to generate the redirects.

Is it replaced by a plain _redirects in the /static root (with _headers) ?
Or is there some new option to activate it ?

I can’t find anymore any reference on the docs and nothing relevant in discourse. Is it me ?

Thanks for any tip/info.

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You can have a _redirects file at the root of your published site, or put your redirects in your netlify.toml

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Yes thanks, I just changed for that.

But i can (almost :slight_smile: ) swear that there was a time where an index.redir generating this.

Anyway thanks for this (new ?) solution.

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It’s not default, but if you look at the theme that powers gohugo.io there is one. We use Hugo aliases to generate the Netlify redirects file via a custom output format.

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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh . … yes thanks.
I totally forgot that I also added that part (sure it will not works without it :slight_smile:

For other people, i document here this config.toml part.
Again THANKS bep.

[outputs]
home = [ "HTML", "RSS", "REDIR" ]

[mediaTypes]
[mediaTypes."text/netlify"]
suffixes = [""]
delimiter = ""

[outputFormats]
[outputFormats.REDIR]
mediatype = "text/netlify"
baseName = "_redirects"
isPlainText = true
notAlternative = true

and index.redir

# Netlify redirects. See https://www.netlify.com/docs/redirects/
{{  range $p := .Site.Pages -}}
{{ range .Aliases }}
{{  . | printf "%-35s" }}	{{ $p.RelPermalink -}}
{{ end -}}
{{- end -}}
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Some Update for sections and multi-language.

site.Pages only works for current language.

So you have to use {{ range $p := site.AllPages -}} to also get aliases for sections and all languages
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