SXA default redirect rule not working

Question

I am trying the sxa default redirect url but it is not working for my site. Steps followed : /sitecore/content/Tenant/Site/Settings/Redirects/TestRedirect

It is not redirecting me to the link i provided. Instead its opening the same URL which i am requesting.

Please help me resolve the issue.

Thanks all.

Answer 1

Looking at your comment:

I understand that you have an item which actually matches that url but you don't want to show it and want to redirect instead, correct?

It won't work.

SXA redirect maps only work when item cannot be resolved from the url.

Try changing it temporarily to a url which cannot be resolve (just add few letters at the end of your regex) and it will work.

If you want to do redirect for an item which does exist, you either use Redirect items or better use II Rewrite module.

Answer 2

You should check (just my learnings from a few tests):

• does the old url match an existing page? (if so, it will use that and not redirect)
• skip any language in the old url

If that is all ok, it should redirect (the ^/ and /$ are needed if you want regex - not sure if you do here)

ps: I don't think the external url will work though, but it should still redirect (to a faulty url in that case)