Existing .html Redirect

[adam-stamand]

Is there a way to redirect to an existing .html file? I previously used the now deprecated redirect: in the .md file to redirect to an .html that was already generated using other software. From what I can tell, this plugin only allows you to specify .md files, which effectively would prevent me from using raw .html redirect.

For example, if I have an .html file called /docs/content/page.html and I want an index.html generated by mkdocs to redirect to it, I previously just put redirect: page.html in /docs/content.md, and I would automatically be redirected to page.html when I navigated to the /docs/content page.

Is there any way to achieve this effect with the mkdocs-redirects plugin?

[adam-stamand]

Note that one workaround is to place <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=page.html" /> inside the .md file for redirection. This solution doesn't require the plugin at all, though I'm still curious if the plugin supports this pattern.

[JC5]

I am also curious about this. I have several old pages in this format: /en/latest/installation/docker.html.

It is impossible to create a redirect for those.

[prcr]

Besides *.md files, mkdocs-redirects also allows you to redirect to full URLs. So a quick workaround would be to do redirects like in this example:

plugins:
    - redirects:
          redirect_maps:
              "content.md": "https://example.com/content/page.html"
              "en/latest/installation.md": "https://example.com/en/latest/installation/docker.html"