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Emad Omar
Emad Omar

Reputation: 768

Redirect in ExpressJS does not change URL in browser

First off, this is not about a redirect after a POST request via Ajax as I'm aware there're a lot of SO questions regarding this.

What I want is redirecting all requests from / to /app. However, using the following:

/* GET home page. */
router.get('/', function(req, res, next) {
  res.redirect('/app');
});

.. it shows the content of the /app route without changing the URL in browser. It stays the same https://example.com/.

Is there a way to actually redirect with a 302 or 301 http status code?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2095

Answers (1)

cheekujha
cheekujha

Reputation: 801

res.redirect takes two arguments (code, location). code corresponds to HTTP status code . By default code is taken as 302 which means The requested resource resides temporarily under a different URI.

Use 301 code for permanent redirect

res.redirect(301, '/app')

Upvotes: 2

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