Add, edit, and delete site redirects

Redirects send visitors from an old address on your site to a new one, so old links keep working after you change page paths or reorganize your site. You add, edit, filter, and delete redirect rules in your site's Settings under Redirects, and a saved rule starts working immediately.

Open the Redirects settings

Redirects are part of a Site app's settings.

1. Open the site's Settings.

2. Click Redirects in the sidebar.

You see the list of redirect rules for this site.

Add a redirect

A rule has two parts: a source, the address visitors arrive at, and a destination, the address they are sent to.

1. In the Redirects settings, click the button to add a rule.

2. Set the source: type a site path, or pick one of your site's pages.

3. Set the destination: pick one of your site's pages, enter an internal path, or enter an external HTTP or HTTPS URL.

4. Save the rule.

The redirect takes effect immediately after you save. You do not need to republish your site (see Preview and publish your website). This also applies when the source path still belongs to an existing page: the redirect takes over that path at once.

The form checks your input as you fill it in and shows problems inline. Empty fields are not flagged as errors. If the form rejects your rule, see the list of rejected input below. To choose between picking a page and typing a path, remember that pages are managed by name and path in the website builder.

Edit a redirect

Use editing to change where a rule points or what it matches.

1. In the Redirects settings, open the rule's edit control.

2. Change the source, the destination, or both.

3. Save the rule.

Your changes take effect immediately, without republishing.

Filter the redirect list

Use the filter field above the list to find a rule on a site with many redirects. The list shows and matches paths in their stored, readable form. If a path contains an encoded character, the rule appears with the character itself, and the filter matches it that way.

Delete a redirect

Deleting removes the rule and stops it from redirecting visitors.

1. In the Redirects settings, open the rule's delete control.

2. Confirm the deletion.

What the form rejects

When you add or edit a rule, the form rejects input it cannot serve:

• A source that conflicts with another rule. Two rules cannot have the same source.

• Unsafe input. Source and destination must be safe paths or URLs.

• A redirect loop. A rule that sends visitors in a circle is detected and rejected.

• A source another site already reserves. If a longer wildcard prefix on another site reserves the source path, you cannot use it.

For how ConvertSite matches a visitor's address to your rules, including wildcards and query parameters, see How site redirects work. To add many rules at once, import them from a CSV file.