Multiple version documentation redirect from latest

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Hello,
I have a website that contains multiple versions of documentation for some applications and I want to be able to have an alias/redirect that would allow our users to be redirected from /docs/latest/some-page to /docs/v1.0.0/some-page.
This is not a file-by-file redirect but more of a full folder redirect.
I tried to use a symlink that pointed latest → v1.0.0 folders but Hugo only displays the pages on the /docs/latest URL and gives a 404 if I try to access the /docs/v1.0.0/ URLs.

Thanks
Joao

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It’s trivial to create an alias (meta refresh) for the list page, but this only applies to the list page, not the sub-pages.

content/docs/v1.0.0/_index.md

aliases = ['/docs/latest']

Redirection of an entire directory, recursively, should be handled on server side, so the solution will depend on how you are hosting the live site.

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We are using netlify, so it should be a netlify redirect in our case.

Thanks

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In case you haven’t already found it: Bulk redirect as partial might be of interest to you.