Redirects for existing pages

[dave-smyth]

If we create a redirect for a page that exists the redirect doesn’t work. I guess this is the default and expected behaviour to prevent accidental redirects.

Is that interpretation correct? Do entries need to be unpublished (or deleted) for the redirect to work?

[AndrewHaine]

Hi @websmyth ,

That's correct, the current behaviour is to only redirect if the request would have resulted in a 404 so unpublishing or deleting and entry will result in the redirect working.

If you need a redirect to override a page i'd suggest redirecting at the server-level e.g. via htaccess.

Thanks, Andrew

[dave-smyth]

Makes sense – cheers. 🙌